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 Moldova and from Toronto.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Excepter,
The Blues Magoos,
Model 500,
Amazonics,
Television Personalities,
Gichy Dan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jeru the Damaja,
Popol Vuh,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Public Image Ltd.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kaleidoscope,
Jawbox,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Adolescents,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Offenders,
Hashim,
Ponytail,
Soulsonic Force,
Yellowson,
The Fall,
Deakin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
John Lydon,
Derrick May,
Au Pairs,
Frankie Knuckles,
New Age Steppers,
Grey Daturas,
Godley & Creme,
Alton Ellis,
DJ Sneak,
CMW,
Neu!,
The Trojans,
Dead Boys,
Dennis Brown,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Unwound,
Cluster,
Quando Quango,
Dark Day,
The Saints,
Gang Green,
Ken Boothe,
Smog,
Yaz,
Skriet,
Letta Mbulu,
Boredoms,
Ice-T,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Zeros,
Josef K,
kango's stein massive,
The Cure,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.