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 Angola and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 funk 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Agent Orange,
Spandau Ballet,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
Visage,
Janne Schatter,
Graham Central Station,
Sonic Youth,
Mad Mike,
Dawn Penn,
Minor Threat,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Pretty Things,
Don Cherry,
T.S.O.L.,
Amon Düül,
Y Pants,
The Fortunes,
The Modern Lovers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delon & Dalcan,
Model 500,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Henry Cow,
Connie Case,
Mary Jane Girls,
Half Japanese,
Piero Umiliani,
PIL,
The Buckinghams,
Groovy Waters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jerry's Kids,
Roxette,
Ultra Naté,
Dave Gahan,
Pulsallama,
The Sonics,
Dual Sessions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minny Pops,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
LL Cool J,
The Vogues,
48th St. Collective,
Gichy Dan,
Arab on Radar,
Dorothy Ashby,
X-102,
Kenny Larkin,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Magma,
Aloha Tigers,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.