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 Latvia and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Skaos,
Black Sheep,
Janne Schatter,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Scratch Acid,
Gabor Szabo,
The Raincoats,
Barry Ungar,
Brass Construction,
Susan Cadogan,
Derrick May,
Amon Düül,
Icehouse,
The Motions,
The Durutti Column,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blancmange,
Morten Harket,
Todd Terry,
David Axelrod,
Aural Exciters,
Roxette,
the Germs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Green,
the Association,
Maleditus Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Arcadia,
June Days,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Christie,
The Standells,
LL Cool J,
Pylon,
Mars,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Heaven 17,
Rekid,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fugazi,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dawn Penn,
Severed Heads,
Soft Machine,
X-102,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Music Machine,
The Seeds,
Peter & Gordon,
Ludus,
Tomorrow,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.