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 Albania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
The Monochrome Set,
Sällskapet,
Marc Almond,
Accadde A,
Ossler,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Colin Newman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bad Manners,
Unwound,
Joey Negro,
Heaven 17,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mandrill,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stockholm Monsters,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mark Hollis,
Scan 7,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gang Green,
Juan Atkins,
Ludus,
Brass Construction,
Rotary Connection,
Chris Corsano,
Aswad,
Electric Prunes,
the Association,
Swell Maps,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Martian,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Searchers,
Pole,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lindisfarne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Harmonia,
Black Sheep,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pagans,
Al Stewart,
Throbbing Gristle,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Drexciya,
Radiopuhelimet,
Janne Schatter,
Clear Light,
R.M.O.,
David McCallum,
Laurel Aitken,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Albert Ayler,
The Tremeloes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.