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 Malta and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jeff Lynne to the electroclash 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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Roger Hodgson,
Erasure,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nils Olav,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skriet,
Curtis Mayfield,
Todd Rundgren,
Maurizio,
Black Bananas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Happenings,
Moss Icon,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Smoke,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sight & Sound,
Lungfish,
Aloha Tigers,
Ludus,
Sonic Youth,
Susan Cadogan,
Fela Kuti,
The Gories,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Blackbyrds,
Godley & Creme,
Flash Fearless,
Barry Ungar,
Howard Jones,
Hot Snakes,
Sun City Girls,
Byron Stingily,
Oneida,
Flamin' Groovies,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
PIL,
Carl Craig,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grey Daturas,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Babytalk,
Dark Day,
The Fuzztones,
Franke,
Monolake,
Kaleidoscope,
Silicon Teens,
Skarface,
The Cowsills,
Q and Not U,
Mission of Burma,
Organ,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.