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 Nauru and from Mexico City.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Pagans to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Young Rascals,
Babytalk,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Symarip,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
OOIOO,
Scratch Acid,
Thee Headcoats,
Nico,
Mantronix,
Japan,
Nils Olav,
Boz Scaggs,
Alison Limerick,
Cheater Slicks,
K-Klass,
The Stooges,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bang On A Can,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bronski Beat,
Model 500,
Brick,
Hasil Adkins,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Alarm Clocks,
Echospace,
Amon Düül,
Main Source,
Scientists,
Kurtis Blow,
Zapp,
The Standells,
Audionom,
Juan Atkins,
Suicide,
Pussy Galore,
Barrington Levy,
Mo-Dettes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Wings,
Nick Fraelich,
Sound Behaviour,
Chris Corsano,
Soulsonic Force,
The Techniques,
The Grass Roots,
Soft Cell,
Man Eating Sloth,
Delta 5,
Brand Nubian,
Boogie Down Productions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Byron Stingily,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Amon Düül II,
Morten Harket,
Gang Starr,
Joey Negro,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.