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 Belize and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jandek 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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Judy Mowatt,
Aaron Thompson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fad Gadget,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kurtis Blow,
Jacques Brel,
Roxette,
Marvin Gaye,
Stetsasonic,
Malaria!,
The Mojo Men,
Audionom,
The Smiths,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Standells,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mandrill,
Roger Hodgson,
Hoover,
Rapeman,
Mars,
The Tremeloes,
Make Up,
Glenn Branca,
Smog,
Boz Scaggs,
Clear Light,
Symarip,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The American Breed,
E-Dancer,
The Cramps,
Stereo Dub,
The Gories,
Maurizio,
Josef K,
The Five Americans,
Technova,
The Names,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yusef Lateef,
Index,
Nico,
Intrusion,
DJ Sneak,
James White and The Blacks,
The Fire Engines,
the Sonics,
The Zeros,
The Last Poets,
Q and Not U,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fear,
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.