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 Uruguay and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Essential Logic to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
The Red Krayola,
The Durutti Column,
ABC,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Adolescents,
10cc,
Vainqueur,
The Mighty Diamonds,
cv313,
Andrew Hill,
Steve Hackett,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mr. Review,
Leonard Cohen,
Monolake,
Liliput,
Rites of Spring,
Q and Not U,
Crash Course in Science,
Ludus,
Visage,
Soul II Soul,
Television,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
A Flock of Seagulls,
FM Einheit,
Fatback Band,
The Dead C,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Detroit Cobras,
Zapp,
The Raincoats,
the Soft Cell,
Deadbeat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Offenders,
Joe Smooth,
Infiniti,
the Germs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kerri Chandler,
Alton Ellis,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Reuben Wilson,
Lakeside,
The Index,
Brand Nubian,
The Gories,
Howard Jones,
Kurtis Blow,
Fad Gadget,
Excepter,
The Velvet Underground,
Reagan Youth,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Smiths,
Clear Light,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.