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 Dominica and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Joyce Sims to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Sun City Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sugar Minott,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joe Finger,
Lucky Dragons,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aswad,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joe Smooth,
Sonic Youth,
Don Cherry,
Vladislav Delay,
The Tremeloes,
Desert Stars,
The Divine Comedy,
Alphaville,
ABBA,
A Certain Ratio,
The Mummies,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Cramps,
Cluster,
Intrusion,
Circle Jerks,
Dawn Penn,
La Düsseldorf,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
MDC,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
June Days,
Visage,
Funky Four + One,
Metal Thangz,
Television,
The Shadows of Knight,
U.S. Maple,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Banda Bassotti,
John Foxx,
Mo-Dettes,
Neil Young,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Man Parrish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Piero Umiliani,
Section 25,
Franke,
Lou Christie,
Organ,
Electric Prunes,
Nick Fraelich,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.