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 Slovakia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare 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 Eric Dolphy to the grime 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skriet,
The Slackers,
The Real Kids,
The Selecter,
Terrestrial Tones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Qualms,
Rosa Yemen,
Prince Buster,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Surgeon,
Echospace,
Yaz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Darondo,
10cc,
Sonic Youth,
Mantronix,
The Sonics,
Cameo,
Au Pairs,
Black Bananas,
Funkadelic,
the Human League,
Marvin Gaye,
Radio Birdman,
Maurizio,
Joensuu 1685,
Scan 7,
The Kinks,
cv313,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Goldenarms,
Crime,
The Mummies,
Skarface,
The Birthday Party,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Public Enemy,
Brothers Johnson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Flash Fearless,
Toni Rubio,
The Knickerbockers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Evens,
The Monks,
The Martian,
Yazoo,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Seeds,
Roger Hodgson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.