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 Romania and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba 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 Gregory Isaacs to the techno 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Avey Tare,
Rhythm & Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gang Green,
Can,
Nils Olav,
Barry Ungar,
Sonic Youth,
The Young Rascals,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Andrew Hill,
Boz Scaggs,
The Techniques,
Index,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ralphi Rosario,
MC5,
Flamin' Groovies,
Prince Buster,
The Barracudas,
Absolute Body Control,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tom Boy,
L. Decosne,
Parry Music,
Judy Mowatt,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Arcadia,
Rites of Spring,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sandy B,
Lakeside,
Livin' Joy,
Marc Almond,
Ultra Naté,
Matthew Bourne,
Moebius,
Nik Kershaw,
Eric Copeland,
Lalo Schifrin,
Warren Ellis,
H. Thieme,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Shoche,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Howard Jones,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Outsiders,
Unrelated Segments,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wire,
The Monochrome Set,
The Move,
Ornette Coleman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeff Lynne,
The Sonics,
Marvin Gaye,
Schoolly D,
Q and Not U,
Joe Smooth,
Guru Guru,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.