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 Uruguay and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Matthew Halsall to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Aural Exciters,
Thompson Twins,
David McCallum,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pagans,
DJ Style,
Jesper Dahlback,
Hardrive,
Spoonie Gee,
KRS-One,
Moebius,
John Cale,
the Swans,
The Smoke,
Angry Samoans,
Max Romeo,
ABBA,
The Invisible,
The Five Americans,
Lightning Bolt,
The Doors,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Popol Vuh,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Howard Jones,
Severed Heads,
John Foxx,
Pulsallama,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Basic Channel,
Con Funk Shun,
Drexciya,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Stooges,
Anthony Braxton,
Half Japanese,
the Normal,
The Litter,
Henry Cow,
Country Teasers,
Skarface,
Gichy Dan,
Lyres,
Von Mondo,
Roxy Music,
Pet Shop Boys,
Zapp,
Stiv Bators,
Marmalade,
Theoretical Girls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Moon,
F. McDonald,
Barclay James Harvest,
Amon Düül II,
Wings,
The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang.
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.