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 Luxembourg and from Tehran.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb 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 EPMD to the electroclash 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Nation of Ulysses,
World's Most,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fall,
Michelle Simonal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fear,
Quando Quango,
Patti Smith,
Y Pants,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Robert Hood,
Schoolly D,
Barrington Levy,
Yusef Lateef,
Fugazi,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
FM Einheit,
Joy Division,
Matthew Halsall,
Oblivians,
Audionom,
Mission of Burma,
Wings,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nik Kershaw,
UT,
Andrew Hill,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Womack,
the Swans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sandy B,
X-Ray Spex,
Liliput,
Amon Düül II,
Jerry's Kids,
Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Evens,
Sight & Sound,
JFA,
Arthur Verocai,
Eric Dolphy,
Delta 5,
Intrusion,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Depeche Mode,
Kurtis Blow,
Dual Sessions,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxette,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dave Gahan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.