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 Malaysia and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Germs to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lakeside,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Prince Buster,
New Age Steppers,
Ludus,
Von Mondo,
Skarface,
Liliput,
Nick Fraelich,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rod Modell,
Robert Wyatt,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalann,
John Cale,
Lindisfarne,
The Moody Blues,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
PIL,
Eden Ahbez,
K-Klass,
Al Stewart,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Easy Going,
Scientists,
Maleditus Sound,
Ornette Coleman,
Suburban Knight,
Tommy Roe,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Tears for Fears,
The Detroit Cobras,
Silicon Teens,
Crooked Eye,
The Mummies,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Zero Boys,
The Stooges,
Gil Scott Heron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joy Division,
Girls At Our Best!,
Icehouse,
Siglo XX,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joey Negro,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Raincoats,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skaos,
The Invisible,
The Martian,
Panda Bear,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.