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 Turkmenistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 mellotron 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 Soft Cell to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Crooked Eye,
Young Marble Giants,
T.S.O.L.,
Soft Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Teasers,
Pussy Galore,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gap Band,
Siglo XX,
Yazoo,
Radio Birdman,
Skarface,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cowsills,
Quantec,
Swell Maps,
Faust,
Ituana,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thompson Twins,
Essential Logic,
Outsiders,
Pulsallama,
Boredoms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harmonia,
Massinfluence,
The Modern Lovers,
Simply Red,
David Bowie,
Sight & Sound,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dark Day,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ronnie Foster,
Lakeside,
The Neon Judgement,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nirvana,
Minny Pops,
Deepchord,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gories,
Funkadelic,
Radiohead,
The Beau Brummels,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.