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 Togo and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer 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 Marcia Griffiths to the grime 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Red Krayola,
The Mojo Men,
Mark Hollis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Germs,
The Moleskins,
Shuggie Otis,
Bluetip,
Ken Boothe,
Gabor Szabo,
R.M.O.,
The Leaves,
The Invisible,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Supertramp,
The Slackers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Janne Schatter,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Saccharine Trust,
Icehouse,
Newcleus,
Ornette Coleman,
Easy Going,
Black Moon,
Youth Brigade,
Oblivians,
Pole,
Franke,
DNA,
Deepchord,
John Lydon,
Tears for Fears,
Sonny Sharrock,
Thee Headcoats,
Minnie Riperton,
Scion,
Aswad,
Blossom Toes,
Los Fastidios,
Visage,
Sonic Youth,
Dennis Brown,
Josef K,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Zeros,
Swans,
The Kinks,
the Normal,
Maleditus Sound,
Dead Boys,
Flash Fearless,
One Last Wish,
Sun City Girls,
Rotary Connection,
Section 25,
Derrick Morgan,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.