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 Macedonia and from Beijing.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Niagra to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Harmonia,
Lalann,
Fat Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
CMW,
Lucky Dragons,
UT,
Robert Görl,
The Doobie Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
The Cramps,
The Alarm Clocks,
Laurel Aitken,
Gong,
Au Pairs,
JFA,
Dennis Brown,
Unrelated Segments,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Donny Hathaway,
Jacob Miller,
The Mojo Men,
The Remains,
Siglo XX,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gerry Rafferty,
James White and The Blacks,
Quando Quango,
Deakin,
Yellowson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Be Bop Deluxe,
E-Dancer,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Slave,
Technova,
Fela Kuti,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dark Day,
Ten City,
The Toasters,
Panda Bear,
Procol Harum,
The Human League,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Offenders,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pere Ubu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonic Youth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gang Starr,
The Trojans,
Harry Pussy,
Los Fastidios,
Jeru the Damaja,
Surgeon,
Altered Images,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.