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 Zimbabwe and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Crime to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
ABC,
Wire,
Nico,
Japan,
EPMD,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Negative Approach,
Yellowson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Babytalk,
Bluetip,
Cameo,
The Gun Club,
Black Pus,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Intrusion,
the Human League,
Ronnie Foster,
Theoretical Girls,
Altered Images,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eddi Front,
Throbbing Gristle,
Todd Rundgren,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sarah Menescal,
X-101,
Scott Walker,
Derrick May,
Moss Icon,
the Slits,
The Pretty Things,
Soft Machine,
Swell Maps,
KRS-One,
Hoover,
The Associates,
A Certain Ratio,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Excepter,
Kevin Saunderson,
Danielle Patucci,
Metal Thangz,
Scion,
Eric Dolphy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Barry Ungar,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mission of Burma,
Bang On A Can,
Radio Birdman,
Marmalade,
The Moleskins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alphaville,
Marcia Griffiths,
Agitation Free,
John Holt,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.