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 Cape Verde and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Anthony Braxton to the funk 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Model 500,
Jesper Dahlback,
Qualms,
The United States of America,
Electric Prunes,
Soul II Soul,
D'Angelo,
Sun Ra,
The Slackers,
Nirvana,
Loose Ends,
Deakin,
Junior Murvin,
Absolute Body Control,
Accadde A,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Von Mondo,
Sound Behaviour,
The Fall,
Cameo,
Das Ding,
Guru Guru,
The Zeros,
Dave Gahan,
Marine Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alphaville,
Barbara Tucker,
Ice-T,
Terry Callier,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Move,
Lungfish,
Easy Going,
Nick Fraelich,
Morten Harket,
Pulsallama,
10cc,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Five Americans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Iggy Pop,
Scion,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neu!,
Camberwell Now,
The Cure,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Walker Brothers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thee Headcoats,
the Slits,
New Order,
The Last Poets,
Kerri Chandler,
The Neon Judgement,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joe Finger,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.