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 United States and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Q65 to the disco 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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Dark Day,
The Cure,
The Monochrome Set,
Pierre Henry,
Thompson Twins,
The Invisible,
AZ,
Sex Pistols,
Fela Kuti,
Alison Limerick,
Lee Hazlewood,
Guru Guru,
Davy DMX,
Jacob Miller,
JFA,
Yellowson,
Amon Düül,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gap Band,
Intrusion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Tom Boy,
June Days,
Goldenarms,
Iggy Pop,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The New Christs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dave Gahan,
Roy Ayers,
Cameo,
Average White Band,
Section 25,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
James Chance & The Contortions,
R.M.O.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Pretty Things,
Terrestrial Tones,
UT,
Lyres,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crime,
8 Eyed Spy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Vogues,
David Axelrod,
Byron Stingily,
Max Romeo,
The Fall,
Cheater Slicks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Reagan Youth,
Youth Brigade,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wasted Youth,
Rotary Connection,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.