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 Bhutan and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Sam Rivers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Dual Sessions,
The Vogues,
PIL,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scrapy,
Cameo,
The Busters,
Flipper,
Drexciya,
Michelle Simonal,
Kas Product,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moleskins,
The Standells,
Excepter,
Anthony Braxton,
Harry Pussy,
Mo-Dettes,
Roxy Music,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Yazoo,
Sixth Finger,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
kango's stein massive,
Soft Cell,
Intrusion,
The Buckinghams,
Gong,
Stiv Bators,
Bill Near,
Television,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kaleidoscope,
Sound Behaviour,
Cybotron,
Terry Callier,
Ituana,
Tim Buckley,
Duran Duran,
Ultra Naté,
Youth Brigade,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Au Pairs,
Yaz,
Hashim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Country Teasers,
Eric Copeland,
the Normal,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Hood,
Pussy Galore,
Spoonie Gee,
Henry Cow,
Brick,
The Knickerbockers,
The Monks,
Arthur Verocai,
The Toasters,
Pole,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.