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 China and from Glasgow.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Danielle Patucci 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
DJ Sneak,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fugazi,
The Index,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vladislav Delay,
DNA,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Spoonie Gee,
Kevin Saunderson,
Subhumans,
Spandau Ballet,
Joe Finger,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grey Daturas,
Visage,
Scientists,
Theoretical Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Gap Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
KRS-One,
a-ha,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Golliwogs,
The Smiths,
Marmalade,
Oneida,
The Music Machine,
Delta 5,
Carl Craig,
Lungfish,
Roxette,
Fela Kuti,
The Angels of Light,
AZ,
Neil Young,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeff Mills,
Archie Shepp,
Eden Ahbez,
Adolescents,
The Invisible,
In Retrospect,
Qualms,
Eyeless In Gaza,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flash Fearless,
the Normal,
Oblivians,
The Wake,
Mo-Dettes,
Gong,
Can,
Marine Girls,
Brothers Johnson,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.