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 St Lucia and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Gastr Del Sol,
Japan,
Bob Dylan,
Roxette,
kango's stein massive,
Make Up,
Soft Cell,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scott Walker,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vladislav Delay,
Swell Maps,
Sällskapet,
Jeff Lynne,
Ponytail,
The Cowsills,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Shuggie Otis,
T. Rex,
Jerry's Kids,
PIL,
Lindisfarne,
Scan 7,
Crooked Eye,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bluetip,
Michelle Simonal,
Basic Channel,
The Smoke,
Lightning Bolt,
Alice Coltrane,
Flipper,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slick Rick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang Starr,
The Divine Comedy,
Average White Band,
U.S. Maple,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Glenn Branca,
Hasil Adkins,
the Soft Cell,
the Bar-Kays,
The Selecter,
Los Fastidios,
Moby Grape,
Drexciya,
Lou Reed,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Panda Bear,
Sister Nancy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.