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 Tajikistan and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
The Cramps,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sound Behaviour,
ABC,
Yaz,
Television,
La Düsseldorf,
Monks,
Marine Girls,
Section 25,
The Young Rascals,
The Divine Comedy,
Ornette Coleman,
The Names,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Electric Prunes,
the Soft Cell,
Eric Dolphy,
Can,
Marc Almond,
The Stooges,
Moss Icon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nas,
The Raincoats,
Underground Resistance,
Nation of Ulysses,
Josef K,
Television Personalities,
Danielle Patucci,
This Heat,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Supertramp,
Scratch Acid,
Don Cherry,
Skriet,
The Mojo Men,
Minutemen,
Schoolly D,
Soulsonic Force,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fluxion,
In Retrospect,
Infiniti,
Aloha Tigers,
Avey Tare,
Camouflage,
Pere Ubu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lyres,
Magazine,
Country Teasers,
Isaac Hayes,
CMW,
Yusef Lateef,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Happenings,
Lebanon Hanover,
The New Christs,
Althea and Donna,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.