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 Egypt and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sonny Sharrock to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Nik Kershaw,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q and Not U,
La Düsseldorf,
Deakin,
Faraquet,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Smiths,
Jacques Brel,
Blossom Toes,
The Music Machine,
The Count Five,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mission of Burma,
Robert Hood,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Television,
The Monks,
Pere Ubu,
Section 25,
One Last Wish,
Roxy Music,
ABC,
Livin' Joy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
David Axelrod,
Talk Talk,
Thompson Twins,
Das Ding,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Litter,
Interpol,
The Cramps,
The Associates,
Flash Fearless,
Inner City,
Eddi Front,
H. Thieme,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Morten Harket,
Neu!,
Jeru the Damaja,
Maleditus Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang Green,
Deepchord,
Donald Byrd,
Spoonie Gee,
Lou Christie,
Jandek,
Groovy Waters,
Dennis Brown,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bill Near,
Max Romeo,
Dead Boys,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Surgeon,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.