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 Netherlands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Ronan to the rap 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Half Japanese,
Graham Central Station,
Television Personalities,
AZ,
The American Breed,
Thompson Twins,
The Knickerbockers,
E-Dancer,
The Names,
The Happenings,
Technova,
JFA,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Monks,
Mark Hollis,
Au Pairs,
La Düsseldorf,
Guru Guru,
Yazoo,
Panda Bear,
Suburban Knight,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Womack,
Soft Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Archie Shepp,
Kool Moe Dee,
Little Man,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Dead C,
Boogie Down Productions,
MDC,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pulsallama,
Grauzone,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
June Days,
Minutemen,
Dennis Brown,
Oneida,
Average White Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Seeds,
Boredoms,
Yusef Lateef,
The Moody Blues,
X-Ray Spex,
The Music Machine,
Animal Collective,
Jeff Mills,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Normal,
The Electric Prunes,
Alton Ellis,
Tomorrow,
Max Romeo,
The Vogues,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.