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 Austria and from Bologna.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Wire to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gichy Dan,
Sun City Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Godley & Creme,
Half Japanese,
Matthew Bourne,
10cc,
Blancmange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Piero Umiliani,
The Slackers,
Lindisfarne,
Todd Terry,
The Mojo Men,
the Soft Cell,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Barry Ungar,
F. McDonald,
Echospace,
Eli Mardock,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rotary Connection,
Swans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Oblivians,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Harpers Bizarre,
Y Pants,
Tomorrow,
Monolake,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grey Daturas,
Man Eating Sloth,
Organ,
Roxy Music,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Shuggie Otis,
Newcleus,
Slick Rick,
Yellowson,
Hoover,
Qualms,
Bush Tetras,
Kerri Chandler,
E-Dancer,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
T.S.O.L.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Busters,
Television Personalities,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Style,
The Golliwogs,
Ossler,
Sällskapet,
Black Bananas,
Cymande,
Youth Brigade,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.