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 Senegal and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Angels of Light to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funky Four + One,
Amon Düül II,
Prince Buster,
Sam Rivers,
Soft Cell,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Near,
Pole,
Crispy Ambulance,
Thee Headcoats,
Massinfluence,
Kool Moe Dee,
Essential Logic,
D'Angelo,
Depeche Mode,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Moon,
Lungfish,
Tubeway Army,
Shoche,
Angry Samoans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Agitation Free,
Al Stewart,
Sparks,
Rakim,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Index,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Das Ding,
Moebius,
Ultravox,
Subhumans,
The Grass Roots,
Unrelated Segments,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mark Hollis,
Erykah Badu,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Victims,
David Bowie,
The Fall,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Metal Thangz,
Joe Smooth,
DJ Sneak,
Arcadia,
The Busters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
Heaven 17,
Black Pus,
The Saints,
Electric Prunes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wings,
Jeru the Damaja,
LL Cool J,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.