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 Spain and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Glasgow.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Dark Day to the grime 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
The Fuzztones,
Dark Day,
Monks,
Warren Ellis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sixth Finger,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Sonics,
Suburban Knight,
EPMD,
Pharoah Sanders,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joey Negro,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Main Source,
Mandrill,
Con Funk Shun,
DJ Sneak,
Popol Vuh,
Eddi Front,
Swans,
a-ha,
The Real Kids,
Das Ding,
Joyce Sims,
The Electric Prunes,
Whodini,
Silicon Teens,
Second Layer,
the Fania All-Stars,
Man Eating Sloth,
Magma,
Unwound,
Charles Mingus,
Guru Guru,
Inner City,
The Selecter,
Au Pairs,
Thompson Twins,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cymande,
Amon Düül,
New Age Steppers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Babytalk,
Susan Cadogan,
Aural Exciters,
Lungfish,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Human League,
OOIOO,
Mission of Burma,
John Foxx,
Reagan Youth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mars,
June Days,
Blake Baxter,
Lower 48,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.