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 Kosovo and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the punk 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
The Knickerbockers,
B.T. Express,
Massinfluence,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delta 5,
Blossom Toes,
The Moody Blues,
The Moleskins,
Al Stewart,
Mission of Burma,
Y Pants,
Eurythmics,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gories,
Aswad,
Neil Young,
Sun City Girls,
the Sonics,
Q65,
Unrelated Segments,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Curtis Mayfield,
Terry Callier,
Swell Maps,
Flipper,
Duran Duran,
Rotary Connection,
Anakelly,
Boz Scaggs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marc Almond,
The Mojo Men,
Saccharine Trust,
Deepchord,
Angry Samoans,
Bill Near,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dawn Penn,
Index,
Matthew Halsall,
Japan,
John Holt,
Byron Stingily,
The Toasters,
Colin Newman,
Skarface,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Blackbyrds,
Negative Approach,
MC5,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Görl,
Grey Daturas,
Basic Channel,
Marvin Gaye,
Nico,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.