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 Gambia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin 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 the Association to the techno 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ponytail,
Vainqueur,
Amazonics,
Roy Ayers,
Brothers Johnson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
James White and The Blacks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Walker Brothers,
Banda Bassotti,
Whodini,
The Moleskins,
Newcleus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Derrick Morgan,
Michelle Simonal,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fugs,
Franke,
Altered Images,
Marine Girls,
The Names,
Dave Gahan,
The Slackers,
Bang On A Can,
Theoretical Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Mo-Dettes,
The Raincoats,
Pulsallama,
Andrew Hill,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Clear Light,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
China Crisis,
Livin' Joy,
Lungfish,
Soft Machine,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Davy DMX,
Fear,
The Moody Blues,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Simply Red,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Das Ding,
Ultravox,
Mission of Burma,
Jesper Dahlback,
Unrelated Segments,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.