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 Pakistan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet 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 Pole to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Symarip,
Blancmange,
The Durutti Column,
Fugazi,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fortunes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Black Flag,
The J.B.'s,
Bad Manners,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Moss Icon,
the Soft Cell,
Bobby Womack,
Jandek,
Funky Four + One,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Anthony Braxton,
Severed Heads,
MDC,
Animal Collective,
The Doors,
James White and The Blacks,
Negative Approach,
The Associates,
The Fuzztones,
Minny Pops,
Dawn Penn,
Qualms,
Can,
Robert Hood,
Visage,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Bananas,
Black Moon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wasted Youth,
Magma,
China Crisis,
Gabor Szabo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dead Boys,
New Age Steppers,
DJ Sneak,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joey Negro,
Scott Walker,
D'Angelo,
The Searchers,
Essential Logic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jacob Miller,
The Moleskins,
Urselle,
Derrick May,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.