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 United States and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 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 Zeros to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lower 48,
Jeff Lynne,
Vainqueur,
Nas,
Adolescents,
Gang Gang Dance,
Can,
Smog,
Siglo XX,
Sight & Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
Hasil Adkins,
The Buckinghams,
The Gladiators,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Duran Duran,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DJ Sneak,
Sällskapet,
Steve Hackett,
48th St. Collective,
Cheater Slicks,
Lindisfarne,
Pussy Galore,
Hot Snakes,
Dave Gahan,
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobby Sherman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scientists,
Rapeman,
Thompson Twins,
a-ha,
The Tremeloes,
Bill Near,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Half Japanese,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Young Rascals,
Alphaville,
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Normal,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Gories,
The Pretty Things,
Unwound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Au Pairs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Spoonie Gee,
Scion,
Pylon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dirtbombs,
The Electric Prunes,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.