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 Cambodia and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Man Eating Sloth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
Ultra Naté,
FM Einheit,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gerry Rafferty,
Q and Not U,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dual Sessions,
Gabor Szabo,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultravox,
Chrome,
Parry Music,
Pantytec,
Au Pairs,
Cybotron,
Yellowson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Grass Roots,
Nas,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kerrie Biddell,
Flash Fearless,
Bauhaus,
The Mojo Men,
The Doors,
The Shadows of Knight,
Flamin' Groovies,
E-Dancer,
The Litter,
Soft Machine,
Stetsasonic,
Scan 7,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang Green,
Rod Modell,
Scratch Acid,
Hasil Adkins,
Alice Coltrane,
The Trojans,
The Golliwogs,
Michelle Simonal,
Youth Brigade,
Whodini,
Urselle,
the Soft Cell,
Scott Walker,
Alphaville,
10cc,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pagans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Motorama,
Black Moon,
Lalann,
Oneida,
Lakeside,
Monolake,
Jandek,
Idris Muhammad,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.