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 Malaysia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mojo Men 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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Kool Moe Dee,
Roxy Music,
Gichy Dan,
Youth Brigade,
The Index,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Zeros,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Icehouse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Colin Newman,
Visage,
Schoolly D,
Ponytail,
Kenny Larkin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobby Womack,
Eric B and Rakim,
Grauzone,
Letta Mbulu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jerry's Kids,
The Sonics,
Lower 48,
Vladislav Delay,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Amon Düül II,
Slave,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alison Limerick,
The Busters,
Mad Mike,
Sex Pistols,
The Cosmic Jokers,
U.S. Maple,
Excepter,
Inner City,
the Sonics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Josef K,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Godley & Creme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lalo Schifrin,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Das Ding,
Organ,
Tres Demented,
The Offenders,
Kaleidoscope,
The Knickerbockers,
Rekid,
New Age Steppers,
The Sound,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Max Romeo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.