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 Vietnam and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Desert Stars,
Sun City Girls,
The Gap Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
LL Cool J,
Cecil Taylor,
Danielle Patucci,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wasted Youth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stereo Dub,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Raincoats,
The Velvet Underground,
Jesper Dahlback,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Echospace,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cowsills,
Buzzcocks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
La Düsseldorf,
Essential Logic,
Grey Daturas,
Lyres,
Joyce Sims,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Moon,
Joensuu 1685,
Lungfish,
the Soft Cell,
Bluetip,
Don Cherry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television Personalities,
Lindisfarne,
The Residents,
Make Up,
Robert Wyatt,
Monolake,
Blake Baxter,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scan 7,
Crash Course in Science,
Das Ding,
Graham Central Station,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Hood,
Organ,
The Fortunes,
The Motions,
The Divine Comedy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.