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 Uruguay and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rakim to the jazz 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Fela Kuti,
Kayak,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Tremeloes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Coltrane,
Brand Nubian,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ice-T,
Skaos,
Pylon,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeff Lynne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Toni Rubio,
The Skatalites,
The Gun Club,
The Real Kids,
the Germs,
Donald Byrd,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sandy B,
Lalo Schifrin,
Agitation Free,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nirvana,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
PIL,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Count Five,
Quando Quango,
The Blackbyrds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bluetip,
Spandau Ballet,
Black Sheep,
Soft Machine,
Glambeats Corp.,
ABBA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scott Walker,
Unrelated Segments,
FM Einheit,
Carl Craig,
Gichy Dan,
X-102,
the Soft Cell,
Yaz,
The Pretty Things,
Juan Atkins,
Davy DMX,
R.M.O.,
Moby Grape,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.