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 Senegal and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 ABC to the grime 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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cure,
Idris Muhammad,
Brass Construction,
Robert Hood,
Young Marble Giants,
Sarah Menescal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Spoonie Gee,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Residents,
Bronski Beat,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul II Soul,
Laurel Aitken,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Colin Newman,
Ituana,
Wally Richardson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rakim,
Cybotron,
Mark Hollis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jandek,
Marmalade,
Soul Sonic Force,
Siglo XX,
The Birthday Party,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blake Baxter,
Simply Red,
Marvin Gaye,
The Martian,
Funkadelic,
The Gladiators,
Dual Sessions,
Urselle,
The Happenings,
the Normal,
Audionom,
Section 25,
The Slackers,
Harry Pussy,
The Dirtbombs,
Scott Walker,
Visage,
The Black Dice,
The Fire Engines,
Eric Copeland,
The Monochrome Set,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jacques Brel,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.