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 Eritrea and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Godley & Creme 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
The Pretty Things,
Gichy Dan,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
Thompson Twins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
the Association,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter & Gordon,
Von Mondo,
Hoover,
Unrelated Segments,
Cameo,
The Raincoats,
Los Fastidios,
The Standells,
The Doors,
Matthew Bourne,
The J.B.'s,
The Moody Blues,
KRS-One,
The Gap Band,
Scientists,
Charles Mingus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wasted Youth,
Siglo XX,
Blancmange,
Kerrie Biddell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Supertramp,
Blake Baxter,
Wally Richardson,
Japan,
Arthur Verocai,
Saccharine Trust,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Juan Atkins,
Intrusion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Mighty Diamonds,
F. McDonald,
Cal Tjader,
Gang of Four,
The Black Dice,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scratch Acid,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kenny Larkin,
The Evens,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ludus,
La Düsseldorf,
Audionom,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.