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 San Marino and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Arcadia to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lightning Bolt,
Excepter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Motorama,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Marine Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yaz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
Supertramp,
Johnny Clarke,
The Saints,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Basic Channel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Magazine,
Boredoms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeru the Damaja,
La Düsseldorf,
Lakeside,
Lungfish,
Michelle Simonal,
Pagans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Public Enemy,
Pole,
The Electric Prunes,
Ronan,
ABBA,
Moebius,
Pussy Galore,
Accadde A,
Big Daddy Kane,
Slick Rick,
Electric Prunes,
Skriet,
Max Romeo,
Sun Ra,
New Age Steppers,
Letta Mbulu,
Severed Heads,
The Moleskins,
Erasure,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Piero Umiliani,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Last Poets,
Gong,
Maurizio,
Mission of Burma,
The Mojo Men,
Mad Mike,
The Pretty Things,
The Vogues,
Sonny Sharrock,
Toni Rubio,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.