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 Qatar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Scion to the disco 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Brick,
Camberwell Now,
Neil Young,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Crash Course in Science,
Agent Orange,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nik Kershaw,
MDC,
48th St. Collective,
The Pop Group,
Delon & Dalcan,
Quadrant,
The Saints,
Nick Fraelich,
Tres Demented,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eli Mardock,
Donny Hathaway,
Lou Christie,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lakeside,
Quantec,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Toni Rubio,
Jeff Lynne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Zero Boys,
PIL,
The Angels of Light,
Susan Cadogan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
June of 44,
World's Most,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Walker Brothers,
Essential Logic,
Bill Near,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fall,
Carl Craig,
The Music Machine,
Scan 7,
Sarah Menescal,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pole,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Girls At Our Best!,
The New Christs,
Zapp,
Chris Corsano,
The Gladiators,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
One Last Wish,
Minor Threat,
Sparks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Monks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Aswad,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.