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 Uzbekistan and from Halifax.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Heaven 17 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mummies,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alton Ellis,
Warren Ellis,
Crime,
CMW,
Albert Ayler,
Michelle Simonal,
Vainqueur,
Rotary Connection,
Hot Snakes,
Minor Threat,
Clear Light,
Warsaw,
Sarah Menescal,
Hoover,
The Dead C,
Glambeats Corp.,
Agent Orange,
Pussy Galore,
Magazine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Thompson Twins,
Sugar Minott,
Lucky Dragons,
Marshall Jefferson,
Monolake,
The Toasters,
T. Rex,
The Grass Roots,
Carl Craig,
E-Dancer,
Joensuu 1685,
The Names,
Eurythmics,
Deadbeat,
ABC,
The Vogues,
Peter & Gordon,
Yazoo,
Sixth Finger,
Royal Trux,
Jimmy McGriff,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Spandau Ballet,
John Coltrane,
The Slackers,
David Bowie,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Popol Vuh,
Main Source,
China Crisis,
The Buckinghams,
Sun Ra,
Faraquet,
Negative Approach,
Peter and Kerry,
Matthew Bourne,
Tubeway Army,
John Foxx,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.