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 Bolivia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Reagan Youth to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
James White and The Blacks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Unwound,
MC5,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Moleskins,
The Walker Brothers,
Slick Rick,
One Last Wish,
OOIOO,
Half Japanese,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kayak,
The Monks,
Bluetip,
Masters at Work,
Scientists,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lungfish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nas,
EPMD,
The Angels of Light,
AZ,
Stetsasonic,
Sandy B,
Buzzcocks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bronski Beat,
Saccharine Trust,
Negative Approach,
Von Mondo,
Lightning Bolt,
The Buckinghams,
Symarip,
The United States of America,
The Motions,
Lindisfarne,
Idris Muhammad,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nick Fraelich,
A Certain Ratio,
Thompson Twins,
The Doors,
Zapp,
Henry Cow,
Magazine,
Icehouse,
Drexciya,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jeru the Damaja,
Godley & Creme,
Flash Fearless,
Metal Thangz,
Niagra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crispy Ambulance,
Shuggie Otis,
Darondo,
The Five Americans,
Bush Tetras,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.