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 Brunei and from Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Pylon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Interpol,
Scratch Acid,
Can,
Mars,
The Gories,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Buckinghams,
Aswad,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
James White and The Blacks,
The Mojo Men,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Radiohead,
John Coltrane,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Black Dice,
Black Pus,
Funky Four + One,
Scion,
Bootsy Collins,
Roger Hodgson,
AZ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Slits,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pantaleimon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Negative Approach,
Magma,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
Spoonie Gee,
Agent Orange,
Pole,
R.M.O.,
Hot Snakes,
Eve St. Jones,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sixth Finger,
Trumans Water,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
B.T. Express,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
E-Dancer,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
10cc,
Index,
Isaac Hayes,
Fugazi,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Young Rascals,
Rites of Spring,
The Red Krayola,
The Divine Comedy,
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.