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 Argentina and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Roxy Music to the techno 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 Throbbing Gristle. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Au Pairs,
Minny Pops,
Ten City,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mark Hollis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moss Icon,
Rotary Connection,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Zapp,
Ronan,
Drexciya,
Sex Pistols,
Easy Going,
Godley & Creme,
Lakeside,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Accadde A,
the Fania All-Stars,
Joyce Sims,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultra Naté,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Copeland,
The Saints,
Roy Ayers,
Peter and Kerry,
the Swans,
Sällskapet,
The Tremeloes,
Monolake,
The Angels of Light,
the Sonics,
The Count Five,
Section 25,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
EPMD,
Morten Harket,
Carl Craig,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Outsiders,
Country Teasers,
Eddi Front,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kayak,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sam Rivers,
Dennis Brown,
The Gap Band,
Thompson Twins,
Robert Hood,
Public Image Ltd.,
Patti Smith,
Spoonie Gee,
Rhythm & Sound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gichy Dan,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.