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 Cape Verde and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin 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 The Buckinghams to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Absolute Body Control,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Barracudas,
Jeru the Damaja,
T.S.O.L.,
Marvin Gaye,
Mantronix,
The Trojans,
Pierre Henry,
Pulsallama,
Fear,
48th St. Collective,
Mark Hollis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ronan,
Cecil Taylor,
Brass Construction,
Ornette Coleman,
Joe Smooth,
Joy Division,
Hot Snakes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric B and Rakim,
Little Man,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Index,
Lindisfarne,
E-Dancer,
Quantec,
Kayak,
New Order,
Jesper Dahlback,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Das Ding,
Neu!,
Delta 5,
Wolf Eyes,
Dual Sessions,
Hasil Adkins,
Flash Fearless,
Swell Maps,
The Raincoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Make Up,
Subhumans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
Eli Mardock,
ABC,
Susan Cadogan,
Althea and Donna,
The Smiths,
Depeche Mode,
Ken Boothe,
Average White Band,
cv313,
It's A Beautiful Day,
EPMD,
Bill Wells,
The Wake,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.