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 Macedonia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stetsasonic,
Organ,
Brand Nubian,
Albert Ayler,
The Cowsills,
Howard Jones,
Nico,
The American Breed,
Country Teasers,
Jacob Miller,
The Cure,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Whodini,
Animal Collective,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lakeside,
DJ Style,
Von Mondo,
Godley & Creme,
Underground Resistance,
The Techniques,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Association,
8 Eyed Spy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Peter and Kerry,
The Standells,
Tom Boy,
Donald Byrd,
Crooked Eye,
Ituana,
Negative Approach,
Swell Maps,
Talk Talk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marshall Jefferson,
Parry Music,
Mission of Burma,
Sound Behaviour,
Neu!,
Yellowson,
Roy Ayers,
Fat Boys,
Iggy Pop,
Maurizio,
Mars,
Intrusion,
Matthew Bourne,
Scion,
The United States of America,
Moebius,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
the Fania All-Stars,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.