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 Singapore and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Deadbeat to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Soulsonic Force,
Tom Boy,
Johnny Clarke,
Moby Grape,
Yellowson,
ABBA,
UT,
Loose Ends,
Dead Boys,
Bluetip,
Moebius,
John Lydon,
Kaleidoscope,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fugazi,
John Foxx,
Susan Cadogan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric Copeland,
Eurythmics,
8 Eyed Spy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lalann,
Michelle Simonal,
Sonic Youth,
Ituana,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Blancmange,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pantytec,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Porter Ricks,
Carl Craig,
Peter & Gordon,
The Zeros,
The Grass Roots,
Can,
Bronski Beat,
Andrew Hill,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Sound,
The Moleskins,
the Association,
Marvin Gaye,
The Kinks,
Lightning Bolt,
Neil Young,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABC,
Buzzcocks,
Patti Smith,
Funkadelic,
Panda Bear,
Boredoms,
The Saints,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Circle Jerks,
Ossler,
Davy DMX,
F. McDonald,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.