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 Ecuador and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes 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 Girls At Our Best! 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Stetsasonic,
Glenn Branca,
Terry Callier,
the Fania All-Stars,
John Holt,
Mantronix,
Bootsy Collins,
Stiv Bators,
Darondo,
Depeche Mode,
Deadbeat,
Tomorrow,
Lightning Bolt,
Radio Birdman,
Franke,
Gang Green,
Kayak,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hashim,
The Music Machine,
Scientists,
Alton Ellis,
Television,
Judy Mowatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Wyatt,
The Evens,
Fatback Band,
The Young Rascals,
Soul Sonic Force,
Electric Prunes,
One Last Wish,
OOIOO,
Swans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Robert Görl,
Youth Brigade,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Essential Logic,
The Gladiators,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
The Pop Group,
a-ha,
Sandy B,
Dave Gahan,
Groovy Waters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ken Boothe,
Schoolly D,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fortunes,
Shuggie Otis,
Lalann,
Jeff Lynne,
Marc Almond,
Delta 5,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.