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 Greece and from Woodstock.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Electric Prunes to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Al Stewart,
Scan 7,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
Los Fastidios,
The Dead C,
Nas,
Joensuu 1685,
The Birthday Party,
The Fire Engines,
Lindisfarne,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The United States of America,
Faraquet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Duran Duran,
Hardrive,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kas Product,
Boz Scaggs,
Lucky Dragons,
Arab on Radar,
Lakeside,
Judy Mowatt,
Pere Ubu,
Infiniti,
Alison Limerick,
Anthony Braxton,
KRS-One,
Morten Harket,
Excepter,
Schoolly D,
Max Romeo,
The Offenders,
Sugar Minott,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joey Negro,
Deepchord,
Colin Newman,
Patti Smith,
Lou Christie,
Aural Exciters,
E-Dancer,
Mantronix,
Skaos,
Harpers Bizarre,
Derrick May,
the Association,
Television,
Television Personalities,
Byron Stingily,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
Piero Umiliani,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.