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 Japan and from Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
The Saints,
DNA,
Minor Threat,
The Litter,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
cv313,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Half Japanese,
The Cowsills,
The Velvet Underground,
Slick Rick,
Cecil Taylor,
Underground Resistance,
OOIOO,
D'Angelo,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reagan Youth,
Fugazi,
The J.B.'s,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scientists,
June Days,
Wire,
Harmonia,
The Fortunes,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fire Engines,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lucky Dragons,
Todd Rundgren,
the Human League,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Alton Ellis,
The Monks,
Rapeman,
The Gories,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Siglo XX,
Ossler,
The Gap Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gabor Szabo,
The Blackbyrds,
Supertramp,
Skaos,
Nik Kershaw,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Bar-Kays,
Massinfluence,
The Modern Lovers,
John Foxx,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Swell Maps,
Bill Near,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.