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 Jamaica and from Seoul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Nile Rodgers 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 The Searchers to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Ornette Coleman,
The New Christs,
Bootsy Collins,
Derrick May,
JFA,
The Barracudas,
Unrelated Segments,
E-Dancer,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Warren Ellis,
Pantaleimon,
Tommy Roe,
Gabor Szabo,
D'Angelo,
Roxy Music,
Wolf Eyes,
Bang On A Can,
Pet Shop Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Minor Threat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kenny Larkin,
Kaleidoscope,
the Slits,
The Real Kids,
The Stooges,
Young Marble Giants,
The Monochrome Set,
Kayak,
K-Klass,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Germs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lower 48,
Lalo Schifrin,
Loose Ends,
Camberwell Now,
Glambeats Corp.,
Max Romeo,
The Vogues,
Donny Hathaway,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Erykah Badu,
Public Enemy,
The Associates,
Pagans,
10cc,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lee Hazlewood,
Supertramp,
The Fugs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Faraquet,
The Buckinghams,
Harmonia,
Motorama,
Nirvana,
Quando Quango,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.