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 Kenya and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 One Last Wish to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Drexciya,
X-102,
Absolute Body Control,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Make Up,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minnie Riperton,
Newcleus,
Erykah Badu,
Sight & Sound,
Animal Collective,
F. McDonald,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sun City Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Chrome,
Surgeon,
Mark Hollis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dorothy Ashby,
Easy Going,
Letta Mbulu,
Arab on Radar,
Siglo XX,
Fear,
R.M.O.,
The Misunderstood,
Brass Construction,
Minor Threat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Janne Schatter,
Warsaw,
Tres Demented,
Guru Guru,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alton Ellis,
Kas Product,
Archie Shepp,
Skaos,
John Coltrane,
Gregory Isaacs,
Leonard Cohen,
Gong,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tim Buckley,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rosa Yemen,
Subhumans,
Banda Bassotti,
Cheater Slicks,
Model 500,
Radio Birdman,
MC5,
Terry Callier,
The Doors,
Schoolly D,
Piero Umiliani,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Simply Red,
Minny Pops,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.