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 Switzerland and from Johannesburg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Josef K to the techno 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Byrd,
Underground Resistance,
Liliput,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tim Buckley,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cowsills,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cal Tjader,
Idris Muhammad,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
David McCallum,
Boz Scaggs,
Dennis Brown,
Jacob Miller,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chrome,
Cybotron,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Carl Craig,
Faraquet,
ABBA,
Crooked Eye,
Bad Manners,
Con Funk Shun,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eddi Front,
Motorama,
Stereo Dub,
Laurel Aitken,
Gong,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dual Sessions,
Kenny Larkin,
Unrelated Segments,
The Wake,
The Star Department,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ludus,
The Smiths,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Audionom,
Minny Pops,
The Young Rascals,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
E-Dancer,
Barry Ungar,
Letta Mbulu,
Shoche,
Barrington Levy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cameo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minor Threat,
Sister Nancy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.