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 Ethiopia and from London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Janne Schatter to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Tres Demented,
Arthur Verocai,
Black Pus,
Fluxion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Make Up,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Easy Going,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Offenders,
David Bowie,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dave Gahan,
Bobby Sherman,
Deadbeat,
Soul II Soul,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
DJ Style,
The Gap Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dark Day,
Gastr Del Sol,
Michelle Simonal,
Arab on Radar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Pop Group,
a-ha,
Donald Byrd,
Livin' Joy,
Sonic Youth,
Aural Exciters,
Scion,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare,
Radiohead,
Parry Music,
Stetsasonic,
Technova,
Neu!,
Grauzone,
Sonny Sharrock,
Howard Jones,
Morten Harket,
Cybotron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lakeside,
Oneida,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ohio Players,
Camouflage,
Stiv Bators,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.