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 Nauru and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba 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 Dead Boys to the disco 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
John Foxx,
Leonard Cohen,
Drive Like Jehu,
Harry Pussy,
Maleditus Sound,
Mandrill,
Youth Brigade,
Symarip,
CMW,
the Slits,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Blancmange,
Aural Exciters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dual Sessions,
The Fugs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Technova,
Clear Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The J.B.'s,
Wasted Youth,
The Moleskins,
Kas Product,
Eden Ahbez,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Henry Cow,
T.S.O.L.,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nik Kershaw,
KRS-One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Warren Ellis,
JFA,
Bang On A Can,
New Age Steppers,
a-ha,
Audionom,
Crime,
Susan Cadogan,
Sun Ra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zero Boys,
Groovy Waters,
Albert Ayler,
Zapp,
Heaven 17,
Delon & Dalcan,
kango's stein massive,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crispy Ambulance,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stereo Dub,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Terrestrial Tones,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Associates,
T. Rex,
Sugar Minott,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.