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 France and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Prince Buster to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
The United States of America,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Duran Duran,
The Move,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
X-101,
Dave Gahan,
Donny Hathaway,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cluster,
Ultravox,
Joey Negro,
Joe Finger,
Mission of Burma,
Nils Olav,
Pere Ubu,
Spandau Ballet,
Reagan Youth,
Television,
Gerry Rafferty,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Anakelly,
Erasure,
Eden Ahbez,
Sonic Youth,
The Five Americans,
Yaz,
Kas Product,
The Young Rascals,
JFA,
Aaron Thompson,
Moss Icon,
Patti Smith,
Joy Division,
Andrew Hill,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nirvana,
Wally Richardson,
The Black Dice,
Funkadelic,
The Count Five,
Lakeside,
The Star Department,
The Raincoats,
The Last Poets,
T.S.O.L.,
Oblivians,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Outsiders,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Saccharine Trust,
Eric B and Rakim,
Roger Hodgson,
Stetsasonic,
World's Most,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.