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 Austria and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Buckinghams to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scientists,
Swans,
Derrick May,
The Mojo Men,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Skarface,
The Young Rascals,
Unwound,
the Slits,
Whodini,
Skaos,
Joe Finger,
Adolescents,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oblivians,
Jawbox,
Fear,
Bang On A Can,
Ken Boothe,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Leonard Cohen,
Isaac Hayes,
Sällskapet,
Jacob Miller,
The Moleskins,
Black Flag,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fortunes,
Archie Shepp,
Subhumans,
The Seeds,
Davy DMX,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Faraquet,
Alice Coltrane,
Masters at Work,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lower 48,
This Heat,
The Index,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nick Fraelich,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
LL Cool J,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Red Krayola,
Idris Muhammad,
Chris & Cosey,
Fela Kuti,
Amon Düül,
Monolake,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.