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 Thailand and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Icehouse to the grime 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 Martian. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Eating Sloth 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Aswad,
Tres Demented,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Saints,
Reagan Youth,
a-ha,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Swans,
LL Cool J,
One Last Wish,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Con Funk Shun,
Marvin Gaye,
Japan,
Pylon,
Warren Ellis,
Sällskapet,
Eric Dolphy,
Basic Channel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Human League,
Aaron Thompson,
The Seeds,
Lou Reed,
48th St. Collective,
Unwound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scott Walker,
Morten Harket,
Oblivians,
Peter and Kerry,
The Black Dice,
David McCallum,
Agent Orange,
The Kinks,
Procol Harum,
Rites of Spring,
David Bowie,
Pet Shop Boys,
Soft Cell,
Marine Girls,
Barry Ungar,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bizarre Inc.,
Liliput,
China Crisis,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Prince Buster,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Five Americans,
Gang Starr,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Letta Mbulu,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.