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 Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
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 güiro 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 Darondo to the rap 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Albert Ayler,
Livin' Joy,
Rapeman,
Agitation Free,
Sun City Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric Copeland,
The Dave Clark Five,
Popol Vuh,
Sam Rivers,
Soulsonic Force,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Neil Young,
Lightning Bolt,
Eurythmics,
Massinfluence,
Bauhaus,
Scan 7,
Todd Terry,
Scrapy,
Pantaleimon,
Max Romeo,
Marc Almond,
Joensuu 1685,
The Busters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
U.S. Maple,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Matthew Bourne,
Peter & Gordon,
Steve Hackett,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kenny Larkin,
Maurizio,
Alison Limerick,
Con Funk Shun,
Organ,
Soul II Soul,
Sonic Youth,
Silicon Teens,
Bluetip,
The Divine Comedy,
The Happenings,
The Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
AZ,
Panda Bear,
Lyres,
Swans,
Half Japanese,
Johnny Clarke,
The Selecter,
Dawn Penn,
Ponytail,
Glambeats Corp.,
Janne Schatter,
Gerry Rafferty,
Yazoo,
The Dirtbombs,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.