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 Philippines and from London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Nils Olav to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Avey Tare,
The Fall,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Thompson Twins,
The New Christs,
AZ,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
L. Decosne,
Deakin,
Unrelated Segments,
Cecil Taylor,
Nirvana,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Adolescents,
Lightning Bolt,
Tres Demented,
Johnny Clarke,
The Raincoats,
The Litter,
The Offenders,
Yusef Lateef,
Bootsy Collins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Idris Muhammad,
Boredoms,
These Immortal Souls,
Model 500,
Rod Modell,
Loose Ends,
T.S.O.L.,
Oblivians,
The Kinks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minor Threat,
Silicon Teens,
Roxy Music,
Eli Mardock,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marine Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Josef K,
Stetsasonic,
The Red Krayola,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bauhaus,
Outsiders,
Royal Trux,
Joensuu 1685,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Zeros,
Fluxion,
Soulsonic Force,
Rekid,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.