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 Paris.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Young Marble Giants to the rap 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Faust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marine Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
The Wake,
The Mojo Men,
Al Stewart,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Delon & Dalcan,
Chris Corsano,
Barry Ungar,
Model 500,
Pet Shop Boys,
Skaos,
Laurel Aitken,
The Dave Clark Five,
LL Cool J,
Peter and Kerry,
Second Layer,
Ponytail,
Aaron Thompson,
Audionom,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hashim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fortunes,
Fluxion,
T. Rex,
Mandrill,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wings,
Lightning Bolt,
ABC,
This Heat,
AZ,
Section 25,
the Human League,
The Raincoats,
Deadbeat,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Au Pairs,
the Normal,
Parry Music,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Slave,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Robert Wyatt,
Kas Product,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camouflage,
Boz Scaggs,
Mission of Burma,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jeff Lynne,
Schoolly D,
Rekid,
Black Bananas,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.