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 Andorra and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin 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 Monochrome Set 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Radiohead,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Young Rascals,
Skriet,
Patti Smith,
Ossler,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harpers Bizarre,
Joe Finger,
The Flesh Eaters,
Visage,
Urselle,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roy Ayers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Das Ding,
Los Fastidios,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Angels of Light,
Rufus Thomas,
UT,
Fugazi,
Hoover,
Y Pants,
Warsaw,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gabor Szabo,
Camberwell Now,
Janne Schatter,
New Order,
The Toasters,
Kerri Chandler,
Kaleidoscope,
D'Angelo,
Sällskapet,
Unwound,
Thompson Twins,
The Move,
Dawn Penn,
Barclay James Harvest,
New York Dolls,
Quando Quango,
Tomorrow,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fall,
Massinfluence,
KRS-One,
Con Funk Shun,
Camouflage,
Magma,
Porter Ricks,
Basic Channel,
Zapp,
Excepter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Germs,
Chris & Cosey,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.