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 Panama and from London.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
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 Soulsonic Force to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Crispian St. Peters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Chris & Cosey,
Vainqueur,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ten City,
Kurtis Blow,
Todd Rundgren,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Wake,
Max Romeo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The United States of America,
Ossler,
Livin' Joy,
Nirvana,
Inner City,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scientists,
Procol Harum,
R.M.O.,
Black Bananas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Leonard Cohen,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Womack,
Minnie Riperton,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Saccharine Trust,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
John Foxx,
The Modern Lovers,
Rapeman,
Dave Gahan,
The Fall,
Aswad,
Niagra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Names,
MC5,
Eurythmics,
Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Basic Channel,
Cluster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thompson Twins,
48th St. Collective,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Visage,
Tres Demented,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
UT,
Massinfluence,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.