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 Seychelles and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Neil Young,
Thompson Twins,
Qualms,
Cameo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Archie Shepp,
John Holt,
EPMD,
Section 25,
Surgeon,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Toni Rubio,
The Kinks,
Lower 48,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Evens,
Oblivians,
Television Personalities,
Swell Maps,
The Barracudas,
Young Marble Giants,
Public Enemy,
Ice-T,
Fad Gadget,
The Vogues,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Hoover,
The Skatalites,
DJ Sneak,
a-ha,
Judy Mowatt,
The Divine Comedy,
Newcleus,
The Last Poets,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Five Americans,
Susan Cadogan,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang Green,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Angels of Light,
Scan 7,
Mission of Burma,
The Cramps,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zero Boys,
Chris & Cosey,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ponytail,
Tubeway Army,
K-Klass,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nick Fraelich,
The Saints,
Scrapy,
Desert Stars,
Jacob Miller,
Traffic Nightmare,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.