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 Burundi and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Astoria.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Half Japanese,
The United States of America,
Eric B and Rakim,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Robert Görl,
Funky Four + One,
Mission of Burma,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Man Parrish,
Eric Dolphy,
The Pretty Things,
Eve St. Jones,
Pet Shop Boys,
E-Dancer,
Judy Mowatt,
Inner City,
The Gladiators,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Matthew Halsall,
Pussy Galore,
New York Dolls,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultravox,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Barclay James Harvest,
Grauzone,
Excepter,
Altered Images,
Rites of Spring,
Bill Wells,
Unwound,
Roxy Music,
The Busters,
Eli Mardock,
Tubeway Army,
the Soft Cell,
Alison Limerick,
Sixth Finger,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Monks,
Amon Düül II,
Tomorrow,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Flag,
EPMD,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gang Starr,
The Skatalites,
The Fire Engines,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Monochrome Set,
China Crisis,
Motorama,
The Trojans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bill Near,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Loose Ends,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.