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 Tuvalu and from Houston.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Slits to the jazz 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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Boredoms,
The Sonics,
Sight & Sound,
Barry Ungar,
Lower 48,
The Index,
Rod Modell,
the Human League,
Porter Ricks,
Aaron Thompson,
Mo-Dettes,
Popol Vuh,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gong,
Oblivians,
Soft Machine,
Cecil Taylor,
Aswad,
Rites of Spring,
Q65,
The Standells,
Half Japanese,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cheater Slicks,
The Residents,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dave Gahan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
EPMD,
The Leaves,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pylon,
Bluetip,
Royal Trux,
Dead Boys,
Jawbox,
Neil Young,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ponytail,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Blossom Toes,
Crispy Ambulance,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kurtis Blow,
Parry Music,
Ronan,
Marmalade,
Scratch Acid,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wally Richardson,
The Monks,
Ituana,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Symarip,
The Invisible,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.