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 Gabon and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 World's Most to the funk 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Youth Brigade,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Loose Ends,
F. McDonald,
Sarah Menescal,
Panda Bear,
Toni Rubio,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Aaron Thompson,
Royal Trux,
Bill Near,
Kurtis Blow,
Lakeside,
Qualms,
48th St. Collective,
The Red Krayola,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Godley & Creme,
Idris Muhammad,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pere Ubu,
The Fire Engines,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
kango's stein massive,
Unrelated Segments,
Cluster,
Drexciya,
Bobby Sherman,
Roy Ayers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Mojo Men,
Henry Cow,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Tremeloes,
Sixth Finger,
Yazoo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dead Boys,
Spoonie Gee,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool Moe Dee,
Slave,
Sandy B,
Cymande,
Pantaleimon,
Pagans,
Jacques Brel,
DNA,
In Retrospect,
AZ,
Arthur Verocai,
Charles Mingus,
Malaria!,
The Modern Lovers,
Tears for Fears,
Nick Fraelich,
Amon Düül,
The Wake,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.