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 Ivory Coast and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Quadrant,
Lou Christie,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Freddie Wadling,
D'Angelo,
Sparks,
AZ,
R.M.O.,
Wasted Youth,
Alton Ellis,
Soul II Soul,
June Days,
H. Thieme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Japan,
Henry Cow,
Alison Limerick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Colin Newman,
LL Cool J,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Saints,
Moss Icon,
The Selecter,
The Grass Roots,
Kayak,
Cymande,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Jacob Miller,
Funkadelic,
Deepchord,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bobby Womack,
Magazine,
Accadde A,
Joe Smooth,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sandy B,
Black Sheep,
The Velvet Underground,
The Dead C,
Excepter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gories,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Intrusion,
Graham Central Station,
Silicon Teens,
Max Romeo,
Godley & Creme,
a-ha,
China Crisis,
The Five Americans,
Organ,
Bill Wells,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Neil Young,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.