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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 guitar 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 Stiv Bators to the disco 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magma,
Heaven 17,
Hoover,
Prince Buster,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Television Personalities,
Alphaville,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sixth Finger,
Lalann,
Black Sheep,
UT,
In Retrospect,
Unrelated Segments,
Adolescents,
Vainqueur,
Peter & Gordon,
Dennis Brown,
Ronnie Foster,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camberwell Now,
Bill Wells,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soft Cell,
Marmalade,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stetsasonic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Johnny Clarke,
Accadde A,
The Trojans,
The J.B.'s,
Harry Pussy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joe Finger,
Judy Mowatt,
Von Mondo,
Hardrive,
Arthur Verocai,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Y Pants,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rapeman,
The New Christs,
Graham Central Station,
Sarah Menescal,
Brand Nubian,
Sister Nancy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Moby Grape,
JFA,
Aswad,
Guru Guru,
Organ,
Groovy Waters,
Soul II Soul,
Porter Ricks,
The Knickerbockers,
D'Angelo,
Derrick May,
Isaac Hayes,
The Dead C,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.