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 Afghanistan and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Edmonton.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ronan to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Lightning Bolt,
Chrome,
The Mummies,
Pantaleimon,
Icehouse,
X-Ray Spex,
The Kinks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marvin Gaye,
Josef K,
Eden Ahbez,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Au Pairs,
CMW,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tears for Fears,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fluxion,
Mary Jane Girls,
Amon Düül II,
Marc Almond,
Peter & Gordon,
The Standells,
Gang of Four,
the Sonics,
Youth Brigade,
Zero Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Moebius,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cure,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Happenings,
Lower 48,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Terry Callier,
Johnny Clarke,
The Fugs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Sneak,
Make Up,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Junior Murvin,
The Shadows of Knight,
OOIOO,
The Moody Blues,
The Techniques,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fear,
Schoolly D,
Dennis Brown,
Groovy Waters,
Minutemen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Buckinghams,
Isaac Hayes,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.