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 Qatar and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Black Dice to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Angry Samoans,
Erykah Badu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jawbox,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
The Kinks,
The Motions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Derrick Morgan,
The Names,
Minutemen,
Neil Young,
Mary Jane Girls,
John Cale,
The Smoke,
Howard Jones,
L. Decosne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The American Breed,
Bootsy Collins,
Quantec,
Patti Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
The Buckinghams,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
AZ,
Skriet,
Fear,
Metal Thangz,
The Pretty Things,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
B.T. Express,
Anthony Braxton,
DNA,
Eddi Front,
David McCallum,
The Star Department,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Index,
Scott Walker,
The Misunderstood,
Henry Cow,
Organ,
Liliput,
Zapp,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lucky Dragons,
Jesper Dahlback,
It's A Beautiful Day,
JFA,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Joy Division,
The Sonics,
Toni Rubio,
Audionom,
Electric Prunes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joe Smooth,
Con Funk Shun,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.