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 Macedonia and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar 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 Alison Limerick to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Schoolly D,
Camberwell Now,
Outsiders,
Liliput,
Gang Green,
Bluetip,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Unrelated Segments,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quadrant,
Underground Resistance,
Absolute Body Control,
T. Rex,
The Happenings,
Basic Channel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Oblivians,
Soft Machine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Oneida,
Subhumans,
Radiohead,
Rod Modell,
The Wake,
John Lydon,
B.T. Express,
Guru Guru,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultra Naté,
Swans,
Toni Rubio,
The United States of America,
Tres Demented,
Robert Hood,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Alphaville,
cv313,
Marmalade,
Q65,
The Electric Prunes,
Swell Maps,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Associates,
Monks,
Jandek,
Gang Starr,
The Shadows of Knight,
Radiopuhelimet,
Interpol,
Qualms,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
EPMD,
Jawbox,
Loose Ends,
X-101,
Clear Light,
Skaos,
Crooked Eye,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.