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 Georgia and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gerry Rafferty to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
Magma,
Television,
Michelle Simonal,
Scientists,
The Beau Brummels,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heaven 17,
The Mummies,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Moebius,
Mary Jane Girls,
Susan Cadogan,
Silicon Teens,
Iggy Pop,
Tres Demented,
One Last Wish,
The Mojo Men,
Lungfish,
Jandek,
Pulsallama,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Association,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nirvana,
Soulsonic Force,
Deakin,
The Angels of Light,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Skriet,
Suburban Knight,
Angry Samoans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Juan Atkins,
Skarface,
Eli Mardock,
Anthony Braxton,
Technova,
Robert Wyatt,
Vainqueur,
Y Pants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Pretty Things,
Kool Moe Dee,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kaleidoscope,
Swell Maps,
Gong,
Flamin' Groovies,
Aaron Thompson,
LL Cool J,
Delta 5,
Mars,
10cc,
Peter and Kerry,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Misunderstood,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Freddie Wadling,
Flipper,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.