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 Lithuania and from Toronto.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Delta 5 to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Hardrive,
Masters at Work,
Janne Schatter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Vainqueur,
These Immortal Souls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Seeds,
Siglo XX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Standells,
Peter and Kerry,
China Crisis,
Juan Atkins,
Marine Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacob Miller,
Slave,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
B.T. Express,
The New Christs,
Peter & Gordon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABBA,
Oblivians,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delon & Dalcan,
KRS-One,
Cluster,
Ultravox,
Swell Maps,
Joy Division,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cramps,
Bronski Beat,
Black Moon,
Mandrill,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Chris Corsano,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rites of Spring,
The Gap Band,
Black Sheep,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lalann,
Bob Dylan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Divine Comedy,
Sound Behaviour,
Stereo Dub,
Drive Like Jehu,
Danielle Patucci,
Stiv Bators,
E-Dancer,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.