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 Moldova and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Desert Stars,
X-Ray Spex,
Barbara Tucker,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Masters at Work,
Ice-T,
Index,
Qualms,
New York Dolls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aswad,
Barrington Levy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Sonics,
Stetsasonic,
Amazonics,
Severed Heads,
Scion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Human League,
Prince Buster,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang Green,
U.S. Maple,
Chrome,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Glenn Branca,
the Bar-Kays,
the Swans,
EPMD,
Andrew Hill,
Excepter,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Residents,
Godley & Creme,
The Star Department,
Colin Newman,
The Human League,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blackbyrds,
Bauhaus,
Shuggie Otis,
Matthew Halsall,
Howard Jones,
Kenny Larkin,
The Leaves,
E-Dancer,
Skriet,
Arcadia,
Loose Ends,
Leonard Cohen,
The Skatalites,
Faust,
Crooked Eye,
Ultra Naté,
Kayak,
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.