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 Burundi and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
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 linndrum 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 The Angels of Light to the rap 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dave Gahan,
The Mojo Men,
The Happenings,
FM Einheit,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Michelle Simonal,
Absolute Body Control,
Qualms,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Underground Resistance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pierre Henry,
Cybotron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Franke,
The Martian,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kerri Chandler,
Gregory Isaacs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Tim Buckley,
The Smoke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Y Pants,
Swell Maps,
Rod Modell,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Doors,
the Swans,
Pantytec,
Babytalk,
The Barracudas,
Amon Düül,
Avey Tare,
The Smiths,
T.S.O.L.,
Josef K,
Interpol,
Sam Rivers,
The Stooges,
Peter and Kerry,
Aloha Tigers,
Godley & Creme,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Inner City,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Easy Going,
X-102,
Lower 48,
the Human League,
MDC,
Crime,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Royal Trux,
T. Rex,
Cal Tjader,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.