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 Eritrea and from Stockholm.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 World's Most to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Avey Tare,
Adolescents,
Pantytec,
World's Most,
Newcleus,
Robert Wyatt,
Make Up,
Anthony Braxton,
The Fortunes,
Clear Light,
Unwound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Monks,
The Durutti Column,
Hardrive,
Von Mondo,
The Sound,
Shoche,
Lucky Dragons,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Althea and Donna,
Zapp,
Youth Brigade,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Groovy Waters,
The Offenders,
The Moody Blues,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wire,
Sun City Girls,
Minutemen,
Freddie Wadling,
MDC,
The Cramps,
The Misunderstood,
The Move,
Rotary Connection,
Black Flag,
Nirvana,
Scion,
Soulsonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Camouflage,
Moebius,
Simply Red,
Scientists,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pole,
Mantronix,
Susan Cadogan,
Liliput,
DJ Sneak,
Grauzone,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.