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 Vanuatu and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Anakelly to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Walker Brothers,
The United States of America,
Lou Reed,
Andrew Hill,
Johnny Clarke,
Lalo Schifrin,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rakim,
Neil Young,
Pierre Henry,
Television,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Todd Rundgren,
Absolute Body Control,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yellowson,
Susan Cadogan,
The Dirtbombs,
Grauzone,
Marc Almond,
Grandmaster Flash,
Boz Scaggs,
The Remains,
Roxette,
Wire,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scan 7,
Morten Harket,
ABBA,
Dorothy Ashby,
Davy DMX,
Dawn Penn,
Michelle Simonal,
Bush Tetras,
The Cure,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scrapy,
Donny Hathaway,
Junior Murvin,
Tim Buckley,
Charles Mingus,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Underground Resistance,
CMW,
Matthew Halsall,
Metal Thangz,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Real Kids,
Bobby Womack,
MC5,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.