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 Tanzania and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe 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 The Mojo Men to the disco 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 Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Vainqueur,
Anthony Braxton,
Godley & Creme,
The Stooges,
The Moody Blues,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ronan,
Hasil Adkins,
Cluster,
EPMD,
Maleditus Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Traffic Nightmare,
JFA,
Agent Orange,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fire Engines,
June of 44,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Seeds,
T. Rex,
Skaos,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Hoover,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Velvet Underground,
A Flock of Seagulls,
R.M.O.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Letta Mbulu,
DJ Sneak,
Amon Düül,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Adolescents,
The Tremeloes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Idris Muhammad,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Raincoats,
Siglo XX,
Slick Rick,
Eddi Front,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alison Limerick,
Duran Duran,
Deakin,
Massinfluence,
Deadbeat,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brick,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deepchord,
48th St. Collective,
Audionom,
The Standells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.