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 Indonesia and from Taipei.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 OOIOO to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Tremeloes,
Todd Rundgren,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aswad,
The Grass Roots,
Monks,
Jerry's Kids,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Fad Gadget,
The Kinks,
Sällskapet,
The Neon Judgement,
Blossom Toes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Five Americans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ohio Players,
Unrelated Segments,
Black Pus,
Youth Brigade,
The J.B.'s,
Sarah Menescal,
Kaleidoscope,
London Community Gospel Choir,
New Order,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gil Scott Heron,
Q and Not U,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Litter,
Von Mondo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scratch Acid,
Henry Cow,
Bang On A Can,
Amazonics,
Oneida,
Susan Cadogan,
Arthur Verocai,
The Barracudas,
Depeche Mode,
Kerrie Biddell,
New York Dolls,
The Moody Blues,
Yellowson,
Fear,
Bobby Byrd,
Wasted Youth,
Tom Boy,
Tropical Tobacco,
Interpol,
Black Moon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Surgeon,
Arcadia,
Scott Walker,
Ice-T,
Ornette Coleman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Yaz,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.