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 Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Sao Paulo.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rap 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Neu!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ituana,
Youth Brigade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
Unwound,
Infiniti,
The Cure,
Arcadia,
Roy Ayers,
Robert Görl,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rites of Spring,
Black Flag,
Warsaw,
Fluxion,
Procol Harum,
Bang On A Can,
Niagra,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fugs,
Silicon Teens,
The Fire Engines,
Bob Dylan,
The Raincoats,
Al Stewart,
Camouflage,
Monolake,
Jerry's Kids,
Marc Almond,
Black Bananas,
Urselle,
Bush Tetras,
The Gladiators,
The Gap Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Lucky Dragons,
Con Funk Shun,
U.S. Maple,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Beau Brummels,
The Durutti Column,
Bootsy Collins,
Franke,
EPMD,
Max Romeo,
Connie Case,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deepchord,
Zapp,
Inner City,
The Mojo Men,
Index,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.