Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Guatemala and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Techniques to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Swans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Music Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Negative Approach,
The Fall,
The Seeds,
Tommy Roe,
David McCallum,
Shoche,
Eric Copeland,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Smoke,
Patti Smith,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Tremeloes,
Yazoo,
World's Most,
The J.B.'s,
Ten City,
The Gap Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Letta Mbulu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Darondo,
Johnny Clarke,
Schoolly D,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vladislav Delay,
Technova,
F. McDonald,
Echospace,
Nico,
Silicon Teens,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Kinks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Man Eating Sloth,
Robert Wyatt,
Dead Boys,
Underground Resistance,
Joey Negro,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lyres,
Michelle Simonal,
Arcadia,
June Days,
Bauhaus,
The Young Rascals,
Chrome,
Bobby Sherman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Skriet,
Masters at Work,
Crooked Eye,
Hashim,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.