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 Marshall Islands and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 guitar 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 The Move to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Moebius,
Marc Almond,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Byrd,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Reagan Youth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Groovy Waters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eli Mardock,
Das Ding,
Camouflage,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nirvana,
Matthew Bourne,
Arthur Verocai,
Crash Course in Science,
Hoover,
James White and The Blacks,
Donny Hathaway,
Yusef Lateef,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Toni Rubio,
Lou Reed,
The Blackbyrds,
Delta 5,
Pantaleimon,
Tubeway Army,
Zero Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fire Engines,
Tom Boy,
The Residents,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Morten Harket,
Marine Girls,
Ultra Naté,
Soft Cell,
The Doors,
The Five Americans,
T. Rex,
Tomorrow,
The Misunderstood,
The Moody Blues,
Sound Behaviour,
Royal Trux,
the Normal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Heaven 17,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Görl,
Darondo,
Duran Duran,
MDC,
Quadrant,
Radiopuhelimet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.