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 Marshall Islands and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Wings,
Steve Hackett,
Procol Harum,
Soul II Soul,
Bill Wells,
Terrestrial Tones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Max Romeo,
Jerry's Kids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
E-Dancer,
Unrelated Segments,
Lakeside,
The Alarm Clocks,
L. Decosne,
Camouflage,
Dual Sessions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Los Fastidios,
Roxy Music,
The Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kas Product,
Bluetip,
The Gladiators,
Joe Finger,
Whodini,
Stetsasonic,
B.T. Express,
LL Cool J,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Janne Schatter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Prince Buster,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
MC5,
Shuggie Otis,
The Tremeloes,
CMW,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fugazi,
The Vogues,
Black Flag,
Pere Ubu,
Zero Boys,
the Bar-Kays,
Interpol,
Basic Channel,
The Buckinghams,
Icehouse,
Alison Limerick,
D'Angelo,
Franke,
Scott Walker,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aswad,
The Red Krayola,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Talk Talk,
UT,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.