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 Palau and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro 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 Pop Group to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Susan Cadogan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tim Buckley,
Moby Grape,
Motorama,
John Coltrane,
A Certain Ratio,
Pylon,
Faraquet,
The Monochrome Set,
Interpol,
Funky Four + One,
Eurythmics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sandy B,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
a-ha,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ronan,
Lou Reed,
Drive Like Jehu,
Piero Umiliani,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Patti Smith,
Todd Terry,
Index,
The Slits,
The Blackbyrds,
Donny Hathaway,
X-101,
Clear Light,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Groovy Waters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nils Olav,
Lower 48,
Roy Ayers,
Rufus Thomas,
Mad Mike,
The Music Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Reuben Wilson,
The Moody Blues,
E-Dancer,
Mantronix,
The Buckinghams,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Buzzcocks,
Dennis Brown,
Sound Behaviour,
Easy Going,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gichy Dan,
Livin' Joy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.