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 Niger and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Von Mondo to the grime 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Dennis Brown,
Dawn Penn,
Yaz,
Desert Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Martian,
Bobby Sherman,
Swell Maps,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dave Gahan,
Rakim,
Henry Cow,
Archie Shepp,
Television,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Accadde A,
Camberwell Now,
Icehouse,
Cecil Taylor,
The Five Americans,
Hardrive,
F. McDonald,
Talk Talk,
Unrelated Segments,
X-101,
DNA,
Symarip,
Matthew Bourne,
Von Mondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Inner City,
Young Marble Giants,
Blossom Toes,
Rosa Yemen,
Quadrant,
Banda Bassotti,
Jesper Dahlback,
Con Funk Shun,
Franke,
Quantec,
Alton Ellis,
The Last Poets,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aural Exciters,
The Blackbyrds,
Whodini,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crooked Eye,
Warren Ellis,
Alphaville,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
X-Ray Spex,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.