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 Belarus and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 Kayak to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Porter Ricks,
Maurizio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eli Mardock,
The Gap Band,
Swans,
Half Japanese,
Scott Walker,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Negative Approach,
Kool Moe Dee,
Minor Threat,
The Associates,
Marvin Gaye,
Aural Exciters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
AZ,
Jeru the Damaja,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Wake,
Dave Gahan,
Fela Kuti,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Saints,
Scientists,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Fania All-Stars,
Angry Samoans,
Aloha Tigers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Idris Muhammad,
Hasil Adkins,
David McCallum,
The Remains,
Visage,
Todd Rundgren,
kango's stein massive,
U.S. Maple,
Bill Near,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Womack,
Davy DMX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Dead C,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Godley & Creme,
Cameo,
Technova,
Brothers Johnson,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Moleskins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Harpers Bizarre,
Joyce Sims,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fat Boys,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.