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 Dominican Republic and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
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 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 Michael McDonald 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 CMW 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ten City,
Charles Mingus,
The Associates,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Count Five,
Stiv Bators,
Erykah Badu,
China Crisis,
Nas,
Mo-Dettes,
Radio Birdman,
Josef K,
Amon Düül,
Outsiders,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Residents,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
Vainqueur,
Brass Construction,
Bauhaus,
Soft Machine,
R.M.O.,
Wolf Eyes,
Kurtis Blow,
The Human League,
Kerri Chandler,
John Cale,
Hashim,
The Walker Brothers,
Dawn Penn,
Eddi Front,
Pole,
Susan Cadogan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
Scott Walker,
Masters at Work,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mad Mike,
Camberwell Now,
Yusef Lateef,
Inner City,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Slackers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Stooges,
Quando Quango,
Gregory Isaacs,
Essential Logic,
Rufus Thomas,
Joey Negro,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blancmange,
The Happenings,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Excepter,
Smog,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.