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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jacques Brel to the crunk 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Five Americans,
Jesper Dahlback,
ABBA,
Amon Düül,
Pole,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fluxion,
Second Layer,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ten City,
Nirvana,
Andrew Hill,
Dave Gahan,
JFA,
U.S. Maple,
Malaria!,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Yaz,
Pierre Henry,
Quando Quango,
Funky Four + One,
Chris Corsano,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Johnny Clarke,
Gabor Szabo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Neil Young,
Dawn Penn,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ituana,
Audionom,
John Cale,
The Neon Judgement,
Grauzone,
Judy Mowatt,
Tres Demented,
Kas Product,
Average White Band,
Slick Rick,
Camouflage,
The Leaves,
Gichy Dan,
The Divine Comedy,
Lower 48,
Monolake,
The Move,
Rhythm & Sound,
Suicide,
Sparks,
Prince Buster,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Visage,
Fad Gadget,
Scrapy,
Drexciya,
Vainqueur,
The Buckinghams,
Groovy Waters,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.