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 Seychelles and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ 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 Los Fastidios to the dance 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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Glenn Branca,
Derrick Morgan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
Altered Images,
Flipper,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funky Four + One,
Camouflage,
Flash Fearless,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Stereo Dub,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Dirtbombs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Associates,
Yellowson,
Bronski Beat,
Joe Finger,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Görl,
Das Ding,
Mad Mike,
Roxy Music,
Quadrant,
David Bowie,
Eurythmics,
Alison Limerick,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Moon,
Arcadia,
Duran Duran,
Babytalk,
Slick Rick,
Tears for Fears,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Sherman,
The Kinks,
The Barracudas,
the Normal,
Qualms,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Wake,
The Monochrome Set,
Grey Daturas,
The Moody Blues,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DJ Sneak,
The Count Five,
Ludus,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
World's Most,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.