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 Ethiopia and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Soul II Soul to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Ultimate Spinach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Barracudas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cybotron,
Newcleus,
The Cowsills,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Subhumans,
Dead Boys,
Audionom,
Ultra Naté,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
MDC,
The Toasters,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rotary Connection,
The Trojans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Roxy Music,
Negative Approach,
The Victims,
The Busters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tommy Roe,
The Grass Roots,
John Holt,
Loose Ends,
The Dirtbombs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Severed Heads,
The Music Machine,
Vainqueur,
Camouflage,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Faraquet,
Sällskapet,
Sarah Menescal,
The Names,
Joe Finger,
Swell Maps,
Section 25,
Malaria!,
The Moleskins,
Pere Ubu,
Ultravox,
Black Moon,
Gang Green,
CMW,
Eden Ahbez,
The Monochrome Set,
Slick Rick,
Sun City Girls,
The Count Five,
The Vogues,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Quando Quango,
Dark Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.