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 Afghanistan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sonics,
The Star Department,
Popol Vuh,
Soul II Soul,
Thompson Twins,
Country Teasers,
Ituana,
Supertramp,
Godley & Creme,
The Happenings,
Dead Boys,
Swans,
The Techniques,
Kurtis Blow,
The American Breed,
Boz Scaggs,
Section 25,
Wire,
Das Ding,
Thee Headcoats,
Susan Cadogan,
the Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
Michelle Simonal,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mission of Burma,
Oneida,
Stockholm Monsters,
X-102,
Mars,
Glenn Branca,
David Axelrod,
Pantaleimon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Organ,
The Smoke,
The Walker Brothers,
Archie Shepp,
Girls At Our Best!,
Deakin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radiopuhelimet,
Motorama,
In Retrospect,
LL Cool J,
The Cure,
Negative Approach,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Eddi Front,
Yaz,
The Smiths,
Unwound,
Matthew Halsall,
Young Marble Giants,
Gerry Rafferty,
Skarface,
Interpol,
Fat Boys,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.