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 Benin and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the rock 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Todd Rundgren,
The Zeros,
8 Eyed Spy,
Robert Hood,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Motions,
Brand Nubian,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Guru Guru,
China Crisis,
Prince Buster,
Skriet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Monks,
Peter and Kerry,
The Barracudas,
Goldenarms,
ABC,
The Walker Brothers,
Joyce Sims,
Lou Reed,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lightning Bolt,
Crash Course in Science,
The Invisible,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Magma,
Agent Orange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tres Demented,
Rotary Connection,
Althea and Donna,
DJ Style,
Eve St. Jones,
The Divine Comedy,
Derrick May,
This Heat,
Zero Boys,
The Saints,
Don Cherry,
Terry Callier,
Anthony Braxton,
Au Pairs,
Eddi Front,
Sarah Menescal,
Kayak,
The Gladiators,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ponytail,
Silicon Teens,
Donny Hathaway,
Groovy Waters,
Barry Ungar,
The Golliwogs,
Fatback Band,
Skarface,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nik Kershaw,
Supertramp,
Ronnie Foster,
Outsiders,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.