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 Spain and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kayak to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
X-102,
Pantaleimon,
Amazonics,
Eli Mardock,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gap Band,
Freddie Wadling,
Basic Channel,
Scrapy,
Dawn Penn,
Thompson Twins,
Con Funk Shun,
Niagra,
Aswad,
Juan Atkins,
The Neon Judgement,
Rotary Connection,
the Germs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Steve Hackett,
Buzzcocks,
Mandrill,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deepchord,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Khruangbin,
Camberwell Now,
Brass Construction,
Sparks,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Young Rascals,
Porter Ricks,
Roy Ayers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Smiths,
Oblivians,
Zapp,
Swell Maps,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jeff Lynne,
Saccharine Trust,
The Birthday Party,
Lindisfarne,
Marc Almond,
Danielle Patucci,
Pet Shop Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minutemen,
Theoretical Girls,
The Pop Group,
Alison Limerick,
David Bowie,
Radiohead,
Althea and Donna,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Move,
Yellowson,
Skriet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.