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 Zimbabwe and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Zero Boys to the grime 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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Warren Ellis,
Cybotron,
Pierre Henry,
The Dirtbombs,
The Mojo Men,
Desert Stars,
Kerri Chandler,
In Retrospect,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Subhumans,
Excepter,
The New Christs,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flash Fearless,
John Cale,
Letta Mbulu,
The Move,
Circle Jerks,
Danielle Patucci,
Little Man,
Kenny Larkin,
Boredoms,
Stiv Bators,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Black Sheep,
The Blues Magoos,
Kayak,
Pere Ubu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Von Mondo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Guru Guru,
The Real Kids,
Lalann,
Q65,
Toni Rubio,
Gerry Rafferty,
Babytalk,
Outsiders,
Tomorrow,
Connie Case,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Al Stewart,
X-101,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Moon,
Robert Hood,
Joyce Sims,
Pantaleimon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sonny Sharrock,
La Düsseldorf,
Aswad,
Anakelly,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rapeman,
The Raincoats,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.