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 Lyon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kings Of Tomorrow to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Zero Boys,
Arthur Verocai,
Barclay James Harvest,
Drive Like Jehu,
Donald Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
Sarah Menescal,
June Days,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Inner City,
Rapeman,
Erasure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deepchord,
Basic Channel,
Godley & Creme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeff Lynne,
The Birthday Party,
Rufus Thomas,
The Motions,
Brick,
Robert Görl,
Rosa Yemen,
Boz Scaggs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pantytec,
One Last Wish,
Warsaw,
Jimmy McGriff,
Funkadelic,
Derrick May,
Metal Thangz,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cybotron,
Hoover,
Icehouse,
Make Up,
EPMD,
Magma,
Bronski Beat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Al Stewart,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Dirtbombs,
Stiv Bators,
Aloha Tigers,
Quadrant,
Skriet,
E-Dancer,
Pussy Galore,
Unrelated Segments,
Alice Coltrane,
Alphaville,
Essential Logic,
Pole,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.