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 Mauritania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 organ 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 Girls At Our Best! to the funk 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Schoolly D,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Graham Central Station,
Tim Buckley,
Joy Division,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Oneida,
Yazoo,
Leonard Cohen,
The Angels of Light,
Popol Vuh,
Suburban Knight,
Ultravox,
Swell Maps,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eddi Front,
Panda Bear,
Adolescents,
Aaron Thompson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hashim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lightning Bolt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harmonia,
The Mummies,
Lucky Dragons,
Byron Stingily,
Darondo,
Pagans,
Q65,
Todd Rundgren,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Yusef Lateef,
Archie Shepp,
Brothers Johnson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Monks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The American Breed,
The Gap Band,
Roxy Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Walker Brothers,
UT,
Eden Ahbez,
Ituana,
The Evens,
Tears for Fears,
Soul II Soul,
Soft Cell,
Depeche Mode,
Pantaleimon,
Jawbox,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.