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 Norway 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Girls At Our Best! to the rap 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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Alarm Clocks,
Monks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Gories,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott Heron,
Young Marble Giants,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ludus,
8 Eyed Spy,
Massinfluence,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jawbox,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joy Division,
The Gladiators,
Kenny Larkin,
New Age Steppers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Q65,
Subhumans,
Popol Vuh,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Delta 5,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lalann,
Dave Gahan,
The Star Department,
Sight & Sound,
Flash Fearless,
The Fugs,
Reuben Wilson,
Q and Not U,
La Düsseldorf,
The Slackers,
Spoonie Gee,
Visage,
Second Layer,
The Fortunes,
Patti Smith,
Lindisfarne,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Last Poets,
Man Eating Sloth,
Matthew Bourne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ornette Coleman,
James White and The Blacks,
Mission of Burma,
L. Decosne,
The Leaves,
Saccharine Trust,
Connie Case,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mantronix,
Robert Wyatt,
Duran Duran,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camouflage,
Al Stewart,
The Mummies,
Vladislav Delay,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.