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 Marshall Islands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bad Manners to the punk 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cowsills,
Bluetip,
Electric Prunes,
Erykah Badu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Residents,
Swell Maps,
Kurtis Blow,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Thompson Twins,
Sparks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Vogues,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echospace,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Magazine,
Isaac Hayes,
AZ,
Television,
Black Moon,
Brass Construction,
Icehouse,
Soul II Soul,
Scrapy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Susan Cadogan,
Cameo,
Monks,
The Fortunes,
Franke,
Ten City,
Flipper,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Altered Images,
Organ,
Deepchord,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Section 25,
Outsiders,
The Litter,
The Divine Comedy,
The Knickerbockers,
June Days,
Black Sheep,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
New Order,
Barry Ungar,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blake Baxter,
David McCallum,
Unrelated Segments,
Quantec,
Drexciya,
Interpol,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare,
Black Flag,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.