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 Vanuatu and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Talk Talk,
The Five Americans,
Jawbox,
Danielle Patucci,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nik Kershaw,
David Axelrod,
Livin' Joy,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gladiators,
Bluetip,
Scrapy,
Ten City,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rotary Connection,
Symarip,
Barbara Tucker,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Howard Jones,
Quadrant,
Dead Boys,
Al Stewart,
Ohio Players,
U.S. Maple,
Moss Icon,
Gichy Dan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cameo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Human League,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sight & Sound,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Unrelated Segments,
Avey Tare,
Camberwell Now,
Malaria!,
John Holt,
Ice-T,
The Fugs,
World's Most,
the Germs,
Faust,
The Names,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soft Machine,
Monolake,
Pere Ubu,
The Durutti Column,
Buzzcocks,
Eden Ahbez,
Severed Heads,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pulsallama,
Barrington Levy,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sister Nancy,
Boz Scaggs,
Minutemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.