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 Bhutan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
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 Gang Starr to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
U.S. Maple,
Sonic Youth,
Minor Threat,
Black Bananas,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kas Product,
Section 25,
Kerrie Biddell,
Maleditus Sound,
Thee Headcoats,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Lydon,
Judy Mowatt,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Porter Ricks,
Barrington Levy,
The Wake,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie,
The Music Machine,
Goldenarms,
Joe Smooth,
Yellowson,
Henry Cow,
Fluxion,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lungfish,
Clear Light,
OOIOO,
Arab on Radar,
Public Image Ltd.,
Slave,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cymande,
CMW,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sixth Finger,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hot Snakes,
The Offenders,
Jeff Lynne,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Techniques,
Erykah Badu,
Jeff Mills,
The Monks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soft Machine,
Kaleidoscope,
Nick Fraelich,
The Slackers,
Sandy B,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Harpers Bizarre,
Prince Buster,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
E-Dancer,
The New Christs,
The Litter,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.