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 China and from Jakarta.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Easy Going to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Raincoats,
H. Thieme,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Traffic Nightmare,
Robert Görl,
Agent Orange,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cowsills,
The Happenings,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brand Nubian,
Index,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jerry Gold Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vainqueur,
John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ice-T,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gap Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tears for Fears,
Rapeman,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
K-Klass,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bauhaus,
Excepter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Connie Case,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joensuu 1685,
The Black Dice,
Brick,
Black Flag,
Delon & Dalcan,
Michelle Simonal,
Sexual Harrassment,
Harry Pussy,
Schoolly D,
Morten Harket,
Johnny Clarke,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Desert Stars,
the Normal,
Bill Wells,
FM Einheit,
Tommy Roe,
June Days,
Aaron Thompson,
Pantytec,
Soulsonic Force,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.