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 Jordan and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Qualms 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Easy Going,
a-ha,
Kerrie Biddell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chris Corsano,
Cymande,
Mission of Burma,
John Foxx,
The Motions,
Joe Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Move,
Faraquet,
kango's stein massive,
Suburban Knight,
Bob Dylan,
The Toasters,
Sonic Youth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Chris & Cosey,
Matthew Bourne,
T.S.O.L.,
Excepter,
OOIOO,
Magazine,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Happenings,
Leonard Cohen,
Todd Terry,
Camberwell Now,
Iggy Pop,
Duran Duran,
Wolf Eyes,
The Count Five,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
MDC,
Hasil Adkins,
Hashim,
Robert Hood,
DJ Style,
Vladislav Delay,
Masters at Work,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Kinks,
FM Einheit,
The Blackbyrds,
AZ,
Jeff Mills,
The Moleskins,
X-Ray Spex,
the Germs,
Stereo Dub,
The Misunderstood,
Piero Umiliani,
Pere Ubu,
Hot Snakes,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.