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 India and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Sister Nancy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tubeway Army,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Japan,
Quando Quango,
Rod Modell,
MC5,
The Velvet Underground,
Bob Dylan,
Eve St. Jones,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Monks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Whodini,
Mo-Dettes,
L. Decosne,
Hasil Adkins,
Idris Muhammad,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joyce Sims,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thee Headcoats,
DJ Style,
X-101,
Flash Fearless,
Byron Stingily,
Average White Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soulsonic Force,
The Zeros,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Fugs,
The Techniques,
Jacob Miller,
Skaos,
Avey Tare,
Black Moon,
The Moleskins,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
cv313,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mandrill,
Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
Boredoms,
Animal Collective,
Talk Talk,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Colin Newman,
Sarah Menescal,
Essential Logic,
Quadrant,
Slick Rick,
Simply Red,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.