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 Serbia and from Manila.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Busters to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
The Buckinghams,
L. Decosne,
New Age Steppers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pole,
Lyres,
Technova,
June Days,
Ice-T,
Man Eating Sloth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
the Soft Cell,
Guru Guru,
Subhumans,
Max Romeo,
Siglo XX,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Malaria!,
Suicide,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Newcleus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Erykah Badu,
Massinfluence,
Mission of Burma,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Thompson Twins,
The Evens,
The Walker Brothers,
Marvin Gaye,
The Invisible,
Rufus Thomas,
Minnie Riperton,
Radio Birdman,
the Swans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Inner City,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Gladiators,
Jacob Miller,
Chrome,
Neu!,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Black Pus,
Ten City,
T. Rex,
The Vogues,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Copeland,
Slave,
Roxette,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.