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 Portugal and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Scan 7 to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
The Associates,
Funky Four + One,
ABBA,
The Techniques,
Y Pants,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Howard Jones,
Public Image Ltd.,
This Heat,
Suburban Knight,
Nico,
Don Cherry,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Steve Hackett,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Victims,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gap Band,
Brick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
The Dave Clark Five,
Porter Ricks,
Fear,
David McCallum,
Rosa Yemen,
Basic Channel,
Drexciya,
Flash Fearless,
Mad Mike,
The Golliwogs,
Josef K,
Jeru the Damaja,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Animal Collective,
Goldenarms,
The American Breed,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fugazi,
Deepchord,
Bill Wells,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marvin Gaye,
ABC,
Camberwell Now,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Smiths,
Barry Ungar,
Model 500,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Thompson Twins,
cv313,
The New Christs,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Cale,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.