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 Monaco and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Soul Sonic 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bluetip,
Erasure,
Lou Christie,
Henry Cow,
Ultimate Spinach,
Carl Craig,
Lucky Dragons,
Kevin Saunderson,
Guru Guru,
Aloha Tigers,
Metal Thangz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Section 25,
Hot Snakes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Livin' Joy,
Pierre Henry,
Cameo,
Basic Channel,
New Age Steppers,
Supertramp,
The Shadows of Knight,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Susan Cadogan,
Royal Trux,
Alison Limerick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joy Division,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Seeds,
Depeche Mode,
Hardrive,
Mo-Dettes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gregory Isaacs,
Leonard Cohen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eve St. Jones,
Fela Kuti,
Mantronix,
Sound Behaviour,
Intrusion,
The Dead C,
Gang Gang Dance,
Clear Light,
Flipper,
The Birthday Party,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sex Pistols,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Black Flag,
Morten Harket,
Franke,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pulsallama,
Mars,
Scott Walker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.