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 Indonesia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dead Boys 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?
Shuggie Otis,
Scratch Acid,
Matthew Bourne,
Easy Going,
Japan,
Juan Atkins,
Erasure,
Yazoo,
Wings,
Janne Schatter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Technova,
The Mojo Men,
Chrome,
Masters at Work,
Pantytec,
Tomorrow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Reuben Wilson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Stetsasonic,
Au Pairs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joyce Sims,
Freddie Wadling,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Echospace,
Pulsallama,
The Stooges,
Camouflage,
In Retrospect,
Sonny Sharrock,
Drexciya,
Duran Duran,
Cluster,
Archie Shepp,
Pantaleimon,
Ronnie Foster,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yusef Lateef,
The Red Krayola,
Clear Light,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dark Day,
Can,
Arab on Radar,
Suburban Knight,
John Lydon,
Pet Shop Boys,
LL Cool J,
Brass Construction,
The Dave Clark Five,
Visage,
Radiohead,
Sonic Youth,
The Slits,
Wally Richardson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Graham Central Station,
Nik Kershaw,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.