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 Turkey and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Move to the dance 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Subhumans,
Amazonics,
Bill Near,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Howard Jones,
The Standells,
Davy DMX,
Underground Resistance,
Aswad,
The Move,
ABC,
the Human League,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Remains,
Fear,
Scion,
Warsaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Godley & Creme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vladislav Delay,
Deadbeat,
Gerry Rafferty,
David Bowie,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fluxion,
Unwound,
Section 25,
The Selecter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Searchers,
Y Pants,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Black Dice,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Velvet Underground,
Sun City Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nick Fraelich,
Massinfluence,
Albert Ayler,
The Flesh Eaters,
Joey Negro,
The Grass Roots,
Minutemen,
Swans,
Mr. Review,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rites of Spring,
Barbara Tucker,
Ronan,
X-Ray Spex,
Stockholm Monsters,
Roger Hodgson,
Essential Logic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Technova,
Toni Rubio,
T.S.O.L.,
The American Breed,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.