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 Congo and from New York.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moby Grape to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
The Gap Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Gladiators,
Man Parrish,
Porter Ricks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Bananas,
Pantaleimon,
The Divine Comedy,
Sound Behaviour,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mo-Dettes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Standells,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soft Machine,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Doobie Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Brothers Johnson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Young Marble Giants,
Pierre Henry,
Minor Threat,
Marvin Gaye,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fortunes,
Monks,
Fat Boys,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Blues Magoos,
Morten Harket,
Absolute Body Control,
Deadbeat,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alphaville,
The Offenders,
Theoretical Girls,
Kayak,
Unrelated Segments,
Nas,
Ken Boothe,
The Last Poets,
Anakelly,
Henry Cow,
The Doors,
Donny Hathaway,
Darondo,
Fad Gadget,
The Black Dice,
Easy Going,
Robert Görl,
Cal Tjader,
Archie Shepp,
Camberwell Now,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Soft Cell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Coltrane,
Television Personalities,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.