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 Manchester.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Loose Ends to the rock 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 The Martian. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Iggy Pop,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
These Immortal Souls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
In Retrospect,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Johnny Clarke,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Busters,
Gerry Rafferty,
David McCallum,
Kerri Chandler,
Gregory Isaacs,
Q and Not U,
Peter & Gordon,
The Motions,
Flash Fearless,
Freddie Wadling,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Groovy Waters,
One Last Wish,
Saccharine Trust,
Nils Olav,
Mark Hollis,
Little Man,
Wings,
Matthew Bourne,
Bootsy Collins,
Lungfish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Faust,
Motorama,
Bauhaus,
Electric Prunes,
Todd Terry,
U.S. Maple,
Rufus Thomas,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ice-T,
Minnie Riperton,
Funky Four + One,
Can,
Joey Negro,
Excepter,
Technova,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barry Ungar,
Kevin Saunderson,
World's Most,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Moleskins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tom Boy,
Dawn Penn,
The Raincoats,
DNA,
Tres Demented,
Amon Düül II,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.