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 Solomon Islands and from Tehran.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joensuu 1685 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro 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 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Happenings,
Stereo Dub,
Patti Smith,
John Cale,
Goldenarms,
The Alarm Clocks,
FM Einheit,
Popol Vuh,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alphaville,
LL Cool J,
The Cure,
David Axelrod,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wire,
Junior Murvin,
Barry Ungar,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Barracudas,
The Invisible,
Terry Callier,
Lungfish,
Moebius,
Eddi Front,
K-Klass,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fat Boys,
Quantec,
Rod Modell,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bad Manners,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lakeside,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Qualms,
Spoonie Gee,
R.M.O.,
Porter Ricks,
Niagra,
Anakelly,
Peter & Gordon,
T. Rex,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mars,
Soulsonic Force,
Schoolly D,
Banda Bassotti,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Mojo Men,
ABBA,
Theoretical Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Man Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
Kas Product,
Duran Duran,
Section 25,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.