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 Hungary and from Hong Kong.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Durutti Column to the funk 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Blancmange,
Warsaw,
The Kinks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Laurel Aitken,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Scott Walker,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Clarke,
kango's stein massive,
Marshall Jefferson,
New Age Steppers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Gladiators,
Moss Icon,
Dead Boys,
Franke,
Vladislav Delay,
June Days,
the Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
Junior Murvin,
The Litter,
The Offenders,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Banda Bassotti,
Eve St. Jones,
The Index,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Womack,
Cal Tjader,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jandek,
The Techniques,
Malaria!,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Flag,
Hoover,
Minutemen,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
L. Decosne,
The Durutti Column,
The Golliwogs,
cv313,
Prince Buster,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Crooked Eye,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Monochrome Set,
Tim Buckley,
The Busters,
Loose Ends,
Alton Ellis,
Bootsy Collins,
Avey Tare,
Joyce Sims,
Throbbing Gristle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.