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 Thailand and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer 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 Schoolly D to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Arcadia,
Althea and Donna,
Quantec,
the Soft Cell,
Newcleus,
Stiv Bators,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Invisible,
Chrome,
Connie Case,
Danielle Patucci,
Tres Demented,
Eric Copeland,
Aloha Tigers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skriet,
Minnie Riperton,
Severed Heads,
Make Up,
Swell Maps,
The Fire Engines,
Donald Byrd,
Ludus,
Rufus Thomas,
Laurel Aitken,
Yusef Lateef,
John Foxx,
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
One Last Wish,
Joy Division,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dawn Penn,
Half Japanese,
Mission of Burma,
Suicide,
The Standells,
Bobby Womack,
Amon Düül II,
Thee Headcoats,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cramps,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Walker Brothers,
David Axelrod,
Ralphi Rosario,
Isaac Hayes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kurtis Blow,
John Cale,
Blake Baxter,
David McCallum,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Monochrome Set,
The Victims,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.