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 Montenegro and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Black Flag to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Joensuu 1685,
The Dirtbombs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fear,
Eddi Front,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
OOIOO,
Bobby Sherman,
Kenny Larkin,
Absolute Body Control,
Japan,
Eurythmics,
Fugazi,
Sun Ra,
The Martian,
Kool Moe Dee,
Donny Hathaway,
The Vogues,
Rakim,
Blossom Toes,
10cc,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Little Man,
Minnie Riperton,
Bluetip,
Arthur Verocai,
The Misunderstood,
Oblivians,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Human League,
Procol Harum,
The Modern Lovers,
Trumans Water,
Arab on Radar,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sex Pistols,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scion,
One Last Wish,
Godley & Creme,
Gichy Dan,
Bobby Womack,
Vainqueur,
Oneida,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Gong,
Grauzone,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Anakelly,
Monolake,
The Count Five,
Half Japanese,
Man Parrish,
Newcleus,
The Slackers,
the Swans,
Soul II Soul,
Underground Resistance,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.