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 Djibouti and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 rhodes 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 Ultra Naté to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
The Blackbyrds,
Essential Logic,
Iggy Pop,
Derrick Morgan,
The Birthday Party,
Liliput,
Index,
Smog,
Aloha Tigers,
EPMD,
Parry Music,
Aswad,
Whodini,
a-ha,
John Lydon,
The Pretty Things,
Henry Cow,
Funky Four + One,
the Soft Cell,
Das Ding,
Suicide,
New York Dolls,
Grey Daturas,
DNA,
The Cure,
Subhumans,
Bob Dylan,
Barry Ungar,
Technova,
Eurythmics,
Janne Schatter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Second Layer,
Black Moon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Happenings,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Alton Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Absolute Body Control,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eddi Front,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boredoms,
Tim Buckley,
the Sonics,
Byron Stingily,
Moebius,
Shuggie Otis,
The Names,
Procol Harum,
Fluxion,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barbara Tucker,
Soul II Soul,
In Retrospect,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.