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 Congo and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Clear Light to the jazz 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Technova,
Gong,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Divine Comedy,
Surgeon,
Lakeside,
Robert Görl,
K-Klass,
Boz Scaggs,
Subhumans,
Aloha Tigers,
Lungfish,
Ice-T,
Prince Buster,
The Busters,
The Names,
Black Pus,
Lower 48,
Ronnie Foster,
The Vogues,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Gories,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stetsasonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Metal Thangz,
The Martian,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Royal Trux,
Kerrie Biddell,
Hashim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Byron Stingily,
Jacques Brel,
the Soft Cell,
Scion,
Public Enemy,
Popol Vuh,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hardrive,
Ultravox,
Infiniti,
Organ,
Model 500,
Fad Gadget,
Hot Snakes,
Tim Buckley,
Groovy Waters,
The Slackers,
June of 44,
Country Teasers,
Kerri Chandler,
Agitation Free,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lyres,
Faraquet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Khruangbin,
Maurizio,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.