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 Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Ludus to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Delon & Dalcan,
June of 44,
X-102,
the Soft Cell,
Pulsallama,
Joey Negro,
Deepchord,
Nirvana,
Peter and Kerry,
Morten Harket,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Frankie Knuckles,
CMW,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tubeway Army,
Marine Girls,
Depeche Mode,
The Knickerbockers,
Crime,
Zapp,
Surgeon,
Andrew Hill,
Quando Quango,
Ohio Players,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Babytalk,
Lalo Schifrin,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
June Days,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
Yaz,
Black Pus,
Ten City,
Jandek,
The Music Machine,
James White and The Blacks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Smiths,
Zero Boys,
Sandy B,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Quadrant,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fatback Band,
Metal Thangz,
Maurizio,
Royal Trux,
Pharoah Sanders,
X-101,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Boredoms,
Harry Pussy,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.