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 Micronesia and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Cybotron to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Traffic Nightmare,
Siglo XX,
Angry Samoans,
Brass Construction,
10cc,
The Gap Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pierre Henry,
Q65,
Lucky Dragons,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Searchers,
Thee Headcoats,
Lakeside,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Monochrome Set,
The Zeros,
The Cure,
Suburban Knight,
Andrew Hill,
Nico,
Scratch Acid,
The Star Department,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fat Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
Brothers Johnson,
New York Dolls,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bill Wells,
Freddie Wadling,
Big Daddy Kane,
Goldenarms,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Max Romeo,
Rites of Spring,
Susan Cadogan,
Supertramp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Chrome,
L. Decosne,
Hoover,
Harmonia,
K-Klass,
The Beau Brummels,
Qualms,
The Happenings,
Vainqueur,
Joe Finger,
Janne Schatter,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Smiths,
Fatback Band,
Mark Hollis,
Stiv Bators,
Yellowson,
Bauhaus,
Joe Smooth,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.