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 Bhutan and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Q65 to the rock 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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
The Monochrome Set,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Grass Roots,
The Vogues,
F. McDonald,
The United States of America,
Eric Copeland,
Kevin Saunderson,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Reed,
Unwound,
Matthew Bourne,
MC5,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Peter and Kerry,
Silicon Teens,
Kaleidoscope,
Gong,
The Tremeloes,
John Holt,
Tim Buckley,
Ponytail,
Sällskapet,
Deepchord,
Bob Dylan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers,
Blake Baxter,
The Stooges,
Sight & Sound,
The Cramps,
D'Angelo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Warsaw,
Radio Birdman,
Stockholm Monsters,
Country Teasers,
Terry Callier,
Agent Orange,
Dave Gahan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Roxette,
Bronski Beat,
These Immortal Souls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eden Ahbez,
Supertramp,
Eddi Front,
Can,
Rapeman,
The Offenders,
Intrusion,
Absolute Body Control,
Rod Modell,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Mojo Men,
Audionom,
The Flesh Eaters,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.