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 Switzerland and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 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 David McCallum to the dance 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Das Ding,
Isaac Hayes,
Negative Approach,
Infiniti,
The Moody Blues,
Excepter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
LL Cool J,
Suburban Knight,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Pretty Things,
Basic Channel,
UT,
Can,
Adolescents,
New Age Steppers,
Make Up,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Last Poets,
Mary Jane Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Fat Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
Flash Fearless,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Magma,
Todd Rundgren,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Victims,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cowsills,
F. McDonald,
Arthur Verocai,
Blake Baxter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Agent Orange,
Outsiders,
Mars,
Matthew Halsall,
Altered Images,
Moebius,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rekid,
Spandau Ballet,
Todd Terry,
Metal Thangz,
Supertramp,
Monks,
Sällskapet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grauzone,
T.S.O.L.,
Warsaw,
Sight & Sound,
Lucky Dragons,
Cymande,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.