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 Guatemala and from Toronto.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Lou Reed 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 Sarah Menescal to the punk 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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Loose Ends,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Wake,
Circle Jerks,
Matthew Halsall,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Busters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Danielle Patucci,
The Misunderstood,
John Coltrane,
Rhythm & Sound,
June Days,
Young Marble Giants,
The Count Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jandek,
The Evens,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Goldenarms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
LL Cool J,
Mr. Review,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Leonard Cohen,
The American Breed,
Agent Orange,
EPMD,
The Slackers,
Brick,
Sarah Menescal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lyres,
Hasil Adkins,
A Certain Ratio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nick Fraelich,
Buzzcocks,
H. Thieme,
The Fire Engines,
Aural Exciters,
Infiniti,
Joy Division,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eve St. Jones,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang of Four,
Ultra Naté,
Severed Heads,
The Selecter,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Excepter,
Au Pairs,
Thee Headcoats,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.