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 Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lower 48 to the crunk 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong 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 a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
The Motions,
ABC,
Pantytec,
Kayak,
cv313,
Bauhaus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jandek,
Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Au Pairs,
Supertramp,
Young Marble Giants,
Nas,
Bobby Womack,
Echospace,
Von Mondo,
Sam Rivers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Popol Vuh,
Public Enemy,
Negative Approach,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Seeds,
The Pop Group,
The Move,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
PIL,
Minor Threat,
Boredoms,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Spandau Ballet,
Toni Rubio,
Second Layer,
Cluster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crispian St. Peters,
Slick Rick,
The Flesh Eaters,
Andrew Hill,
The Golliwogs,
Newcleus,
Blake Baxter,
Cheater Slicks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minutemen,
Sound Behaviour,
Roger Hodgson,
Siglo XX,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Dirtbombs,
Alison Limerick,
Talk Talk,
Ludus,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.