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 France and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Wings to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mark Hollis,
The Smiths,
The Walker Brothers,
Ossler,
Grey Daturas,
Severed Heads,
Cluster,
Crash Course in Science,
Deakin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Oneida,
Erykah Badu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Max Romeo,
Toni Rubio,
Davy DMX,
Model 500,
Derrick May,
Theoretical Girls,
The Trojans,
Wally Richardson,
EPMD,
The Offenders,
Ten City,
Pere Ubu,
Al Stewart,
Dennis Brown,
Eric Dolphy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ken Boothe,
X-101,
Soul II Soul,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jacob Miller,
the Soft Cell,
Jacques Brel,
Boredoms,
The Real Kids,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Electric Prunes,
Aswad,
Circle Jerks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Procol Harum,
Lightning Bolt,
Drexciya,
The Fall,
Loose Ends,
The Associates,
Aloha Tigers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crooked Eye,
The Remains,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Parry Music,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.