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 Sri Lanka and from Bologna.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lakeside to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Peter and Kerry,
Can,
Moebius,
Q and Not U,
The Dead C,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ponytail,
The Raincoats,
Crooked Eye,
Yazoo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Duran Duran,
The Dirtbombs,
Sällskapet,
Jeru the Damaja,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yusef Lateef,
Qualms,
Half Japanese,
Sparks,
Mandrill,
The Vogues,
Slave,
Andrew Hill,
Saccharine Trust,
Harry Pussy,
Camberwell Now,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cymande,
The Wake,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gang Green,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joy Division,
Sister Nancy,
Fela Kuti,
Thee Headcoats,
Das Ding,
Minny Pops,
the Swans,
Groovy Waters,
Essential Logic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Buckinghams,
The Tremeloes,
Magazine,
Warren Ellis,
Henry Cow,
The Busters,
Black Flag,
the Human League,
The Gladiators,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DNA,
Boredoms,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Martian,
Toni Rubio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.