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 Czech Republic and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord 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 Pantaleimon to the dance 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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Idris Muhammad,
The Real Kids,
Johnny Clarke,
Symarip,
Peter and Kerry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Agitation Free,
Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bluetip,
Joensuu 1685,
Peter & Gordon,
The Young Rascals,
Guru Guru,
Tres Demented,
Sister Nancy,
Quando Quango,
Aloha Tigers,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gun Club,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sex Pistols,
Joy Division,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dawn Penn,
Lyres,
Lungfish,
Mark Hollis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fugazi,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Duran Duran,
Boz Scaggs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aaron Thompson,
The New Christs,
Scott Walker,
Swans,
Rotary Connection,
The Black Dice,
kango's stein massive,
Wire,
EPMD,
Sällskapet,
The Searchers,
Aswad,
The Toasters,
Make Up,
Girls At Our Best!,
Andrew Hill,
The Move,
Junior Murvin,
The Velvet Underground,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sound Behaviour,
Ludus,
The Durutti Column,
Jerry's Kids,
Harmonia,
U.S. Maple,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.