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 Tanzania and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Fortunes to the electroclash 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
The Music Machine,
Peter & Gordon,
Quadrant,
Livin' Joy,
Section 25,
DJ Sneak,
Tres Demented,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
10cc,
The Invisible,
The Techniques,
Hot Snakes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Heaven 17,
Connie Case,
Aloha Tigers,
Smog,
Magma,
Grauzone,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Gun Club,
X-Ray Spex,
Cecil Taylor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pantytec,
Sarah Menescal,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Byrd,
Mo-Dettes,
Pierre Henry,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stiv Bators,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Sheep,
Lucky Dragons,
Popol Vuh,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Monochrome Set,
Radio Birdman,
Dual Sessions,
Harmonia,
Bronski Beat,
Crooked Eye,
Yazoo,
Cymande,
Babytalk,
the Bar-Kays,
The Last Poets,
Ice-T,
Chrome,
Jeff Lynne,
The Cramps,
Talk Talk,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lindisfarne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Soft Cell,
Royal Trux,
John Holt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.