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 Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes 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 Maurizio to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Wolf Eyes,
Dark Day,
Funky Four + One,
Bauhaus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gun Club,
The Move,
The J.B.'s,
Wally Richardson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Guru Guru,
Masters at Work,
The Trojans,
Tom Boy,
Porter Ricks,
CMW,
Shuggie Otis,
The Evens,
Panda Bear,
the Germs,
Spandau Ballet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ten City,
The Fall,
The Smiths,
Deepchord,
Beasts of Bourbon,
PIL,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
The Gap Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Freddie Wadling,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Arthur Verocai,
Eli Mardock,
Audionom,
Y Pants,
Lungfish,
Make Up,
John Foxx,
Neil Young,
Black Flag,
Average White Band,
Minor Threat,
Deadbeat,
The Doors,
Vainqueur,
Magma,
The Human League,
Moebius,
This Heat,
The Kinks,
Crime,
Fluxion,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Alton Ellis,
Max Romeo,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.