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 Kosovo and from Manila.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tom Boy to the rock 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Con Funk Shun,
The Dead C,
Matthew Halsall,
Fear,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hot Snakes,
Fatback Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Archie Shepp,
Minny Pops,
the Soft Cell,
Motorama,
Soulsonic Force,
Wings,
Scientists,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pagans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
EPMD,
Iggy Pop,
The Pop Group,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Dirtbombs,
Alice Coltrane,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
La Düsseldorf,
The Fuzztones,
Spoonie Gee,
Alphaville,
This Heat,
Youth Brigade,
Von Mondo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bang On A Can,
Funkadelic,
Hasil Adkins,
Charles Mingus,
Black Pus,
Brick,
The Stooges,
Subhumans,
The Raincoats,
Black Flag,
The Real Kids,
Visage,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Trojans,
Kayak,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eden Ahbez,
The Zeros,
Barry Ungar,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joe Finger,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lucky Dragons,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.