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 France and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Laurel Aitken,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eli Mardock,
Roxette,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
a-ha,
The Skatalites,
Chrome,
Surgeon,
Bill Near,
MDC,
Bobby Byrd,
Colin Newman,
Severed Heads,
Jacques Brel,
The Happenings,
Eden Ahbez,
FM Einheit,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mad Mike,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Junior Murvin,
Moby Grape,
Stereo Dub,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
Slave,
Smog,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun City Girls,
Mars,
Deepchord,
Tubeway Army,
Model 500,
Kas Product,
Mr. Review,
Unrelated Segments,
Marshall Jefferson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
Schoolly D,
the Normal,
Boredoms,
Wire,
Joy Division,
OOIOO,
Accadde A,
Shoche,
Gil Scott Heron,
Alphaville,
Black Sheep,
The Zeros,
Unwound,
New Age Steppers,
Roger Hodgson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.