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 Ivory Coast and from Lyon.
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 Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Newcleus to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Lou Christie,
Mission of Burma,
Lungfish,
The Seeds,
Kayak,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Flag,
Lightning Bolt,
The Evens,
Bluetip,
Tubeway Army,
Ituana,
Infiniti,
June of 44,
Camberwell Now,
The Move,
The Dirtbombs,
Pylon,
Joe Smooth,
Faust,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dorothy Ashby,
Metal Thangz,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gabor Szabo,
Brothers Johnson,
Y Pants,
Essential Logic,
The Litter,
Sister Nancy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Half Japanese,
New Age Steppers,
Desert Stars,
The Leaves,
Tropical Tobacco,
Peter and Kerry,
DJ Sneak,
Suicide,
Youth Brigade,
The Neon Judgement,
Matthew Bourne,
Crime,
Eden Ahbez,
T. Rex,
Amazonics,
Donny Hathaway,
The Black Dice,
Tom Boy,
Model 500,
Ronnie Foster,
MC5,
Max Romeo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Schoolly D,
The Slackers,
David Axelrod,
Rakim,
Fad Gadget,
Bad Manners,
The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang.
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.