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 Germany and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 clarinet 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 Make Up to the punk 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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joyce Sims,
Lakeside,
Q and Not U,
Radio Birdman,
U.S. Maple,
Fela Kuti,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bad Manners,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Five Americans,
Prince Buster,
Toni Rubio,
The Mummies,
One Last Wish,
Wire,
Minny Pops,
Cameo,
Theoretical Girls,
Ronan,
Cal Tjader,
Quando Quango,
Visage,
Excepter,
Minor Threat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultimate Spinach,
Aloha Tigers,
Zero Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eddi Front,
Skaos,
Cymande,
Chris & Cosey,
Roxy Music,
a-ha,
Ice-T,
Minutemen,
Brothers Johnson,
Amon Düül II,
MC5,
Crispian St. Peters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Godley & Creme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sarah Menescal,
Dead Boys,
The Associates,
Black Flag,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Buckinghams,
Bill Near,
Roger Hodgson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alison Limerick,
Crime,
Maurizio,
Mr. Review,
The Gories,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.