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 Iraq and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Al Stewart to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Judy Mowatt,
Heaven 17,
The Pop Group,
Brass Construction,
OOIOO,
Ice-T,
Erasure,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gun Club,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
48th St. Collective,
Nico,
Todd Terry,
Au Pairs,
Bobby Womack,
Peter & Gordon,
Outsiders,
Bang On A Can,
Livin' Joy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Man Parrish,
Godley & Creme,
Bob Dylan,
One Last Wish,
DJ Sneak,
Glenn Branca,
Sexual Harrassment,
Todd Rundgren,
Jeru the Damaja,
Toni Rubio,
Stetsasonic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Index,
Derrick Morgan,
Mantronix,
Kerrie Biddell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Half Japanese,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roger Hodgson,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Clarke,
Rod Modell,
Aswad,
Little Man,
The Fortunes,
Hoover,
Ultimate Spinach,
Skriet,
Jerry's Kids,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Los Fastidios,
Cymande,
Rufus Thomas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.