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 Ghana and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sandy B to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
David Bowie,
John Coltrane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Juan Atkins,
Urselle,
Monolake,
Chris Corsano,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alton Ellis,
Ohio Players,
Joe Finger,
Television Personalities,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roger Hodgson,
Minutemen,
Heaven 17,
Cal Tjader,
Technova,
Alphaville,
Soft Cell,
Connie Case,
Ronnie Foster,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Sherman,
Moby Grape,
The Shadows of Knight,
Quantec,
Kerri Chandler,
Gong,
Blake Baxter,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nas,
Matthew Halsall,
John Foxx,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fortunes,
Mo-Dettes,
Yellowson,
The Dead C,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Electric Prunes,
The Tremeloes,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Icehouse,
the Bar-Kays,
Graham Central Station,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fuzztones,
Dennis Brown,
Tommy Roe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bush Tetras,
Funky Four + One,
Negative Approach,
The Gladiators,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.