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 Spain and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Joe Finger to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Silicon Teens,
Smog,
Derrick May,
The Index,
The Monochrome Set,
Davy DMX,
The American Breed,
Minutemen,
Idris Muhammad,
Kerri Chandler,
B.T. Express,
Blancmange,
The Standells,
Supertramp,
Brick,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Byrd,
Shuggie Otis,
Peter and Kerry,
Vainqueur,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Buzzcocks,
The Leaves,
Kaleidoscope,
The Dirtbombs,
Hardrive,
The Move,
T. Rex,
Hashim,
Royal Trux,
Depeche Mode,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Bar-Kays,
Technova,
Swans,
Yaz,
EPMD,
Glenn Branca,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sugar Minott,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rites of Spring,
Avey Tare,
Loose Ends,
DJ Sneak,
Spandau Ballet,
Audionom,
Excepter,
Blossom Toes,
Scion,
Gerry Rafferty,
Byron Stingily,
Parry Music,
Scrapy,
Reagan Youth,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.