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 Estonia and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Yellowson to the grime 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cybotron,
Yaz,
Little Man,
Arab on Radar,
Tubeway Army,
Reuben Wilson,
DJ Style,
Ronan,
Scrapy,
The Busters,
Mo-Dettes,
the Swans,
Jimmy McGriff,
La Düsseldorf,
Roy Ayers,
Swell Maps,
The Toasters,
The Dead C,
Peter and Kerry,
Amon Düül II,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Coltrane,
Moss Icon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Todd Rundgren,
Anthony Braxton,
Model 500,
Rakim,
Ronnie Foster,
Nick Fraelich,
Zero Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Evens,
Q65,
Kerrie Biddell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Grass Roots,
Roger Hodgson,
Jacob Miller,
kango's stein massive,
Chris Corsano,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kas Product,
Steve Hackett,
The Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bootsy Collins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Seeds,
Joy Division,
Los Fastidios,
Isaac Hayes,
Glenn Branca,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Toni Rubio,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.