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 Vanuatu and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
AZ,
Patti Smith,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Christie,
Fad Gadget,
Arcadia,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Johnny Osbourne,
Anthony Braxton,
UT,
The Slits,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Shuggie Otis,
The Buckinghams,
Section 25,
Basic Channel,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joy Division,
The Searchers,
Freddie Wadling,
OOIOO,
Cheater Slicks,
Youth Brigade,
The Blackbyrds,
Bill Near,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dennis Brown,
The Blues Magoos,
Los Fastidios,
D'Angelo,
Infiniti,
CMW,
New Age Steppers,
Lakeside,
Letta Mbulu,
LL Cool J,
Neil Young,
New York Dolls,
T. Rex,
Siglo XX,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Monochrome Set,
Kurtis Blow,
Franke,
Underground Resistance,
Icehouse,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sun Ra,
Juan Atkins,
Stetsasonic,
The Mummies,
Gil Scott Heron,
T.S.O.L.,
The Vogues,
Quantec,
B.T. Express,
The Neon Judgement,
Unrelated Segments,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.