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 Zambia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar 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 Bill Wells to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Shoche,
The Misunderstood,
Ronan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
The Birthday Party,
Tropical Tobacco,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bronski Beat,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Thee Headcoats,
Spoonie Gee,
Cluster,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gang Starr,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Vogues,
Patti Smith,
Mars,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sparks,
Fat Boys,
Silicon Teens,
DJ Sneak,
Laurel Aitken,
Simply Red,
Crispian St. Peters,
Moebius,
The Mummies,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Neon Judgement,
Swell Maps,
Hot Snakes,
Marshall Jefferson,
U.S. Maple,
Wolf Eyes,
Brass Construction,
Sam Rivers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Surgeon,
Reuben Wilson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eden Ahbez,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bluetip,
Blake Baxter,
Half Japanese,
World's Most,
T.S.O.L.,
ABBA,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Y Pants,
Newcleus,
T. Rex,
Nick Fraelich,
Arcadia,
Grauzone,
Juan Atkins,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.