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 Belarus and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 ABC to the jazz 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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Quando Quango,
Joy Division,
The Gap Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Barry Ungar,
JFA,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fluxion,
Lakeside,
Maleditus Sound,
Interpol,
Black Sheep,
Erasure,
Radiohead,
Electric Prunes,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bad Manners,
Delta 5,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Toasters,
Underground Resistance,
Cecil Taylor,
The Gladiators,
Agitation Free,
New Order,
Reuben Wilson,
FM Einheit,
Aswad,
The Move,
Minor Threat,
Whodini,
David Axelrod,
Mantronix,
Nas,
Au Pairs,
Tommy Roe,
Pylon,
Scan 7,
Chris & Cosey,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rekid,
The Evens,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roy Ayers,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Count Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Joensuu 1685,
Robert Hood,
Youth Brigade,
Depeche Mode,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Surgeon,
Sight & Sound,
Hot Snakes,
David Bowie,
Terry Callier,
Heaven 17,
The Zeros,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.