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 Micronesia and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Fela Kuti to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hoover,
Bob Dylan,
Amon Düül II,
Susan Cadogan,
The Dead C,
Alison Limerick,
Main Source,
Blossom Toes,
The Names,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eddi Front,
The Gap Band,
Fat Boys,
Pussy Galore,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Howard Jones,
These Immortal Souls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Parry Music,
Metal Thangz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cameo,
The Move,
Shuggie Otis,
The Martian,
The Real Kids,
KRS-One,
Steve Hackett,
Essential Logic,
Aswad,
Negative Approach,
Reuben Wilson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Robert Görl,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Aural Exciters,
Bluetip,
Moebius,
Sister Nancy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Johnny Clarke,
Jeff Lynne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Adolescents,
David Axelrod,
MC5,
Deepchord,
Donald Byrd,
A Certain Ratio,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Second Layer,
Warsaw,
Skriet,
Electric Prunes,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.