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 Australia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Y Pants to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Colin Newman,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Moody Blues,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Black Moon,
Los Fastidios,
Alison Limerick,
Sam Rivers,
Ultravox,
Robert Hood,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
World's Most,
Royal Trux,
Grey Daturas,
Gichy Dan,
John Lydon,
Alton Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Cale,
June of 44,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The United States of America,
Soft Machine,
Black Bananas,
Joe Finger,
Glenn Branca,
Tim Buckley,
Kas Product,
the Human League,
Jacques Brel,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Michelle Simonal,
The Star Department,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
OOIOO,
The Invisible,
MDC,
The Real Kids,
Scan 7,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Grauzone,
Young Marble Giants,
Rosa Yemen,
Scratch Acid,
Basic Channel,
The Index,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Panda Bear,
The Wake,
The Offenders,
Talk Talk,
Hoover,
John Foxx,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.