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 India and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hoover to the techno 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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Matthew Halsall,
The Martian,
Radiopuhelimet,
Black Moon,
Isaac Hayes,
Ossler,
Sällskapet,
The Cramps,
Silicon Teens,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Golliwogs,
Icehouse,
Danielle Patucci,
Schoolly D,
Bush Tetras,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sex Pistols,
Gang Green,
Massinfluence,
Connie Case,
Public Enemy,
Sixth Finger,
Swell Maps,
Junior Murvin,
Peter & Gordon,
Model 500,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Q65,
The Leaves,
Lakeside,
The Index,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Groovy Waters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scientists,
the Normal,
Lou Christie,
Mission of Burma,
Kool Moe Dee,
Easy Going,
Joey Negro,
Amon Düül II,
Crash Course in Science,
Bauhaus,
Eric Dolphy,
Bill Near,
Alton Ellis,
The Neon Judgement,
Sugar Minott,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Reuben Wilson,
The Knickerbockers,
Monolake,
Jesper Dahlback,
Siglo XX,
Minor Threat,
Bill Wells,
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.