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 Netherlands and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Prince Buster to the crunk 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Infiniti,
Y Pants,
Bush Tetras,
Barry Ungar,
Blossom Toes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Spoonie Gee,
The Evens,
Excepter,
The Stooges,
Don Cherry,
The Knickerbockers,
Nico,
Pagans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fall,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Monks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Smoke,
A Certain Ratio,
Rosa Yemen,
Simply Red,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marine Girls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Grauzone,
Fatback Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joy Division,
Television Personalities,
Ronnie Foster,
The Count Five,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eden Ahbez,
Procol Harum,
Swans,
Japan,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Aaron Thompson,
Robert Görl,
Funky Four + One,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Massinfluence,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eve St. Jones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roxy Music,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Suicide,
The Kinks,
Adolescents,
Joyce Sims,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.