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 United Kingdom and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Ponytail to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Move,
Alison Limerick,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Minny Pops,
Depeche Mode,
Symarip,
The Doobie Brothers,
Barbara Tucker,
Flipper,
John Holt,
James White and The Blacks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Count Five,
the Swans,
Aaron Thompson,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eden Ahbez,
Suicide,
Pagans,
Fad Gadget,
Moby Grape,
Crooked Eye,
Stereo Dub,
Reuben Wilson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Blancmange,
The Mojo Men,
The Pop Group,
Sonny Sharrock,
Metal Thangz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
June of 44,
Zapp,
Quando Quango,
Suburban Knight,
Junior Murvin,
Soulsonic Force,
Fat Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Saccharine Trust,
Negative Approach,
Von Mondo,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Music Machine,
The Standells,
The Dead C,
Swell Maps,
Chris Corsano,
Man Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Searchers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Flamin' Groovies,
Siglo XX,
June Days,
X-Ray Spex,
Hashim,
Schoolly D,
The Moody Blues,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.