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 Tuvalu and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Cal Tjader to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Audionom,
Stetsasonic,
Fluxion,
Bluetip,
X-102,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Slick Rick,
Sällskapet,
Grey Daturas,
Anthony Braxton,
The Motions,
Glenn Branca,
The Grass Roots,
Roy Ayers,
The Smoke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Quantec,
D'Angelo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rosa Yemen,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dual Sessions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gerry Rafferty,
Procol Harum,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Minnie Riperton,
The Human League,
The Names,
LL Cool J,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Au Pairs,
Hardrive,
Lou Christie,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Near,
Eurythmics,
Soul II Soul,
Brothers Johnson,
Shuggie Otis,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scratch Acid,
Tim Buckley,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bang On A Can,
David Bowie,
Godley & Creme,
Albert Ayler,
The Birthday Party,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dark Day,
The Doors,
Hoover,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.