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 Egypt and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Zero Boys to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
PIL,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roger Hodgson,
Stiv Bators,
Neu!,
Dual Sessions,
Gang Green,
Bob Dylan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MDC,
Newcleus,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Robert Wyatt,
Brothers Johnson,
Ultravox,
Pagans,
The Monochrome Set,
Dave Gahan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donald Byrd,
Sight & Sound,
Urselle,
Chris Corsano,
The Names,
Bobby Sherman,
Skarface,
Arthur Verocai,
Kayak,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brand Nubian,
Agitation Free,
Junior Murvin,
Loose Ends,
Tres Demented,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless,
The Zeros,
Camouflage,
Depeche Mode,
Q and Not U,
Erykah Badu,
Tropical Tobacco,
Quando Quango,
Easy Going,
Basic Channel,
Main Source,
Q65,
T.S.O.L.,
F. McDonald,
Zapp,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Byrd,
Siglo XX,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Faust,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Motions,
Fugazi,
The New Christs,
John Foxx,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.