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 South Africa and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Yusef Lateef to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Jacob Miller,
The Divine Comedy,
Interpol,
John Lydon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Red Krayola,
E-Dancer,
Rosa Yemen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Arcadia,
T. Rex,
Wasted Youth,
Quando Quango,
Eric Copeland,
Cymande,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Leonard Cohen,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra,
Cecil Taylor,
The Cramps,
The Cure,
The Motions,
New York Dolls,
the Normal,
Man Eating Sloth,
Public Enemy,
Steve Hackett,
Alison Limerick,
Kayak,
Radiopuhelimet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bauhaus,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fat Boys,
Zapp,
Janne Schatter,
DNA,
Goldenarms,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Siglo XX,
Visage,
Hasil Adkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fire Engines,
Henry Cow,
Make Up,
Joyce Sims,
David Axelrod,
Warsaw,
Yellowson,
Juan Atkins,
Pussy Galore,
Silicon Teens,
The Wake,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Seeds,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Star Department,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.