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 Swaziland and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Velvet Underground to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Carl Craig,
Soul II Soul,
The Star Department,
Icehouse,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Audionom,
Fluxion,
Pylon,
David Axelrod,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Seeds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cecil Taylor,
Siglo XX,
The Red Krayola,
The Black Dice,
The Fugs,
Althea and Donna,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Clear Light,
Skarface,
Visage,
The Five Americans,
Tears for Fears,
Gichy Dan,
Avey Tare,
The Leaves,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ice-T,
Sound Behaviour,
The Count Five,
Heaven 17,
Dead Boys,
Das Ding,
The Neon Judgement,
cv313,
the Normal,
Angry Samoans,
Rotary Connection,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mandrill,
Aswad,
T.S.O.L.,
Godley & Creme,
Blake Baxter,
Whodini,
Tom Boy,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minutemen,
Roy Ayers,
Erasure,
Soulsonic Force,
The Blackbyrds,
Lightning Bolt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.