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 Andorra and from Lille.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fortunes to the punk 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
the Swans,
Jacob Miller,
Organ,
Boz Scaggs,
New Age Steppers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
AZ,
Altered Images,
The Vogues,
The Durutti Column,
Little Man,
Pierre Henry,
Chrome,
Bob Dylan,
Camberwell Now,
Loose Ends,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minor Threat,
Ponytail,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Subhumans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wings,
Cybotron,
Trumans Water,
Gabor Szabo,
Delon & Dalcan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Michelle Simonal,
Schoolly D,
Amon Düül,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Bar-Kays,
Echospace,
Moss Icon,
B.T. Express,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sam Rivers,
The Slackers,
Rites of Spring,
Mark Hollis,
Sparks,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Shadows of Knight,
Laurel Aitken,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Leaves,
Ossler,
The Litter,
Lightning Bolt,
Tommy Roe,
Howard Jones,
Qualms,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nation of Ulysses,
Boredoms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Can,
Suburban Knight,
Flipper,
Thompson Twins,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.