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 Russia and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the electroclash 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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men 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 a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Mission of Burma,
Intrusion,
Siglo XX,
Deepchord,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ludus,
John Lydon,
Warsaw,
The New Christs,
The Names,
New York Dolls,
The Five Americans,
Brick,
Lucky Dragons,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Isaac Hayes,
Swell Maps,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Pop Group,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bill Near,
Dead Boys,
Sixth Finger,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roger Hodgson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pole,
Lou Reed,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roxette,
Marine Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Altered Images,
Jacob Miller,
David McCallum,
JFA,
Tom Boy,
MC5,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Radiohead,
John Coltrane,
Eddi Front,
Connie Case,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Gories,
Smog,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joe Smooth,
Blossom Toes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Theoretical Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nik Kershaw,
Japan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.