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 Brunei 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 disco 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
The Slackers,
Severed Heads,
Cal Tjader,
Sonic Youth,
The Evens,
Danielle Patucci,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Standells,
Nick Fraelich,
Yaz,
Slick Rick,
Roxette,
Ituana,
Amon Düül II,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Busters,
New Age Steppers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
OOIOO,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eurythmics,
Al Stewart,
Crooked Eye,
Bronski Beat,
Marcia Griffiths,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Adolescents,
Donny Hathaway,
X-Ray Spex,
Bill Wells,
Dark Day,
Nik Kershaw,
Slave,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tears for Fears,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eli Mardock,
Sound Behaviour,
Deadbeat,
The Slits,
F. McDonald,
10cc,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marine Girls,
Sarah Menescal,
E-Dancer,
Supertramp,
The Dave Clark Five,
Easy Going,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Accadde A,
Skriet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.