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 Greece and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 John Foxx to the punk 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
The Gories,
Pet Shop Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lower 48,
Magazine,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Sheep,
The Count Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lightning Bolt,
Marcia Griffiths,
Model 500,
Neu!,
The Fuzztones,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rosa Yemen,
Stetsasonic,
Roxette,
The Red Krayola,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Masters at Work,
Cymande,
Soft Machine,
Chris & Cosey,
Ten City,
Skarface,
The Kinks,
a-ha,
The Sonics,
The Five Americans,
Little Man,
Zapp,
The Invisible,
Angry Samoans,
Excepter,
Wolf Eyes,
The Moleskins,
Isaac Hayes,
Sixth Finger,
Rites of Spring,
Slick Rick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Maurizio,
The Motions,
Blake Baxter,
The Grass Roots,
Ponytail,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Davy DMX,
Malaria!,
New Order,
CMW,
The Fire Engines,
Don Cherry,
Duran Duran,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
The Toasters,
Negative Approach,
Unwound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.