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 Russia and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 chamberlin 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Patti Smith,
Neu!,
Flamin' Groovies,
Vainqueur,
The Gladiators,
Heaven 17,
Danielle Patucci,
The Gories,
Kenny Larkin,
Man Eating Sloth,
David McCallum,
Anakelly,
Byron Stingily,
Sugar Minott,
Audionom,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ronnie Foster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bauhaus,
Spandau Ballet,
Depeche Mode,
Bootsy Collins,
JFA,
Ponytail,
OOIOO,
Kevin Saunderson,
Surgeon,
Donny Hathaway,
Loose Ends,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Big Daddy Kane,
Joensuu 1685,
Eden Ahbez,
Carl Craig,
Wire,
Cymande,
Hot Snakes,
Half Japanese,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Funkadelic,
Marine Girls,
Erasure,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Electric Prunes,
Blossom Toes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Piero Umiliani,
The Red Krayola,
Hoover,
Judy Mowatt,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Deepchord,
Robert Wyatt,
Angry Samoans,
Clear Light,
Monks,
Stetsasonic,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.