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 Costa Rica and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hashim to the punk 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Toni Rubio,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Terry Callier,
June of 44,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Invisible,
New Order,
Deakin,
Dark Day,
Dawn Penn,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Associates,
Lungfish,
Can,
H. Thieme,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
B.T. Express,
F. McDonald,
Monolake,
Zapp,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sound Behaviour,
Wire,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cure,
Moby Grape,
Theoretical Girls,
The Wake,
Kayak,
Saccharine Trust,
Jandek,
Lakeside,
Joy Division,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lindisfarne,
Steve Hackett,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ultra Naté,
LL Cool J,
Sun Ra,
Skriet,
John Foxx,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Patti Smith,
Delta 5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deepchord,
The Slackers,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Stooges,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Accadde A,
Sister Nancy,
the Fania All-Stars,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.