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 Lesotho and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Jeff Lynne,
Faraquet,
Sound Behaviour,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ponytail,
Girls At Our Best!,
Altered Images,
Lakeside,
Talk Talk,
The Names,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Wire,
Half Japanese,
Carl Craig,
John Holt,
The Mighty Diamonds,
E-Dancer,
New Age Steppers,
Lou Reed,
Essential Logic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Trumans Water,
Minor Threat,
China Crisis,
The New Christs,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Gun Club,
Drexciya,
Depeche Mode,
The Alarm Clocks,
Harmonia,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Aural Exciters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ossler,
The Misunderstood,
Gang Green,
Deepchord,
The Monochrome Set,
Scientists,
Duran Duran,
Japan,
Gil Scott Heron,
PIL,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joyce Sims,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kayak,
The Neon Judgement,
8 Eyed Spy,
Marc Almond,
Con Funk Shun,
KRS-One,
Erykah Badu,
Roxy Music,
Cymande,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eric Dolphy,
Moss Icon,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.