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 Guyana and from Copenhagen.
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 Beijing and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lower 48,
The Blues Magoos,
Vladislav Delay,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Reagan Youth,
Youth Brigade,
Chrome,
The Monochrome Set,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Wings,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Slits,
Michelle Simonal,
Inner City,
X-102,
Public Image Ltd.,
K-Klass,
kango's stein massive,
Average White Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Byron Stingily,
The Victims,
The Raincoats,
The Selecter,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Motions,
U.S. Maple,
China Crisis,
Joy Division,
Bill Near,
Surgeon,
The Names,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Wake,
The Birthday Party,
The Evens,
Flipper,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Junior Murvin,
The Pretty Things,
Excepter,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Electric Prunes,
Echospace,
Spoonie Gee,
Radio Birdman,
David McCallum,
The Associates,
The Vogues,
Lakeside,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.