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 Kenya 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fluxion to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Agitation Free,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Roxy Music,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cheater Slicks,
Wasted Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Kaleidoscope,
The Evens,
Nirvana,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crispy Ambulance,
ABBA,
The Monks,
The Tremeloes,
Wolf Eyes,
Yaz,
Joe Smooth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Henry Cow,
Sight & Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sixth Finger,
Brick,
Magma,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Invisible,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mojo Men,
The Gladiators,
Joey Negro,
Q65,
Arab on Radar,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Görl,
Flipper,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Association,
Whodini,
Nik Kershaw,
The American Breed,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Sound,
The Remains,
Ralphi Rosario,
Yusef Lateef,
KRS-One,
Brass Construction,
Joyce Sims,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Malaria!,
Wings,
Half Japanese,
Matthew Halsall,
Ice-T,
Maleditus Sound,
Pylon,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.