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 Panama and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the rock 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Skaos,
Susan Cadogan,
Crime,
Bill Near,
Make Up,
Grey Daturas,
June of 44,
Shoche,
Don Cherry,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Moleskins,
Bob Dylan,
Letta Mbulu,
Saccharine Trust,
Nico,
In Retrospect,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Flash Fearless,
The Flesh Eaters,
Stiv Bators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Index,
Shuggie Otis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Drexciya,
Icehouse,
Bizarre Inc.,
Electric Prunes,
Popol Vuh,
La Düsseldorf,
Bronski Beat,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Normal,
Sound Behaviour,
cv313,
Spandau Ballet,
Amon Düül II,
The Remains,
FM Einheit,
Subhumans,
The Victims,
Faraquet,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Wire,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Parry Music,
Chris Corsano,
Amazonics,
Soul Sonic Force,
Crispian St. Peters,
Isaac Hayes,
Accadde A,
Cluster,
Rod Modell,
One Last Wish,
a-ha,
The Seeds,
Zero Boys,
Eli Mardock,
DJ Sneak,
Technova,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.