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 Ivory Coast and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum 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 Procol Harum to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Blancmange,
Brand Nubian,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Flamin' Groovies,
MC5,
Technova,
T.S.O.L.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
New Age Steppers,
Joe Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
L. Decosne,
Underground Resistance,
Mo-Dettes,
John Coltrane,
Pussy Galore,
Camouflage,
Subhumans,
Roger Hodgson,
Jacob Miller,
Crispy Ambulance,
LL Cool J,
48th St. Collective,
The Stooges,
CMW,
Barry Ungar,
OOIOO,
Ponytail,
Brick,
Livin' Joy,
The Star Department,
The Alarm Clocks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
June of 44,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
DJ Style,
Black Bananas,
Magazine,
Sound Behaviour,
AZ,
Hasil Adkins,
Aaron Thompson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Modern Lovers,
Yaz,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Saints,
kango's stein massive,
Deepchord,
John Cale,
The Techniques,
The Beau Brummels,
Grey Daturas,
Marine Girls,
Suicide,
Lungfish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Anakelly,
Los Fastidios,
Ultra Naté,
Pole,
Eric Copeland,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.