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 Guyana and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Negative Approach to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Shoche,
Aswad,
Peter & Gordon,
Dead Boys,
The New Christs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Al Stewart,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brand Nubian,
Max Romeo,
Jacob Miller,
Grauzone,
MC5,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Roy Ayers,
Letta Mbulu,
Average White Band,
Roger Hodgson,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Happenings,
Shuggie Otis,
Roxette,
Moby Grape,
Young Marble Giants,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Public Enemy,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Cramps,
Scrapy,
Angry Samoans,
DJ Style,
Model 500,
Junior Murvin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Toni Rubio,
Kaleidoscope,
The Slackers,
Lou Christie,
Theoretical Girls,
cv313,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kas Product,
Interpol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Anthony Braxton,
Make Up,
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra,
the Soft Cell,
Talk Talk,
X-101,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
Soul II Soul,
Idris Muhammad,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.