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 United States and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Portland and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 the Normal to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gastr Del Sol,
Minny Pops,
Sparks,
Juan Atkins,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Barracudas,
Rites of Spring,
Zapp,
Dual Sessions,
Negative Approach,
Rotary Connection,
Malaria!,
Joe Finger,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Flag,
Ultra Naté,
The Cure,
Wings,
The Count Five,
Fear,
Flash Fearless,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Depeche Mode,
Michelle Simonal,
The Dead C,
Tears for Fears,
Wire,
Gabor Szabo,
The Saints,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Christie,
the Sonics,
The Residents,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aural Exciters,
Main Source,
The Move,
Grauzone,
Kaleidoscope,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Victims,
Junior Murvin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Average White Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Monks,
Popol Vuh,
Freddie Wadling,
Carl Craig,
Brick,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Swans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Graham Central Station,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.