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 Micronesia and from Paris.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Chrome to the punk 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Subhumans,
Tom Boy,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Soft Cell,
Rakim,
Shuggie Otis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
KRS-One,
John Coltrane,
Camberwell Now,
Make Up,
Radiopuhelimet,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Mummies,
David Bowie,
Half Japanese,
a-ha,
MC5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Connie Case,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Juan Atkins,
The Flesh Eaters,
Delon & Dalcan,
Panda Bear,
Banda Bassotti,
The Modern Lovers,
Procol Harum,
Faraquet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Section 25,
Gang Starr,
The United States of America,
The Standells,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lakeside,
Suburban Knight,
The Skatalites,
Cheater Slicks,
Prince Buster,
Joyce Sims,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Young Rascals,
Toni Rubio,
Sandy B,
Barclay James Harvest,
In Retrospect,
Bluetip,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bad Manners,
L. Decosne,
Anakelly,
Desert Stars,
10cc,
Lou Reed,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.