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 Rwanda and from Accra.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 arpeggiator 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 Maurizio to the rock 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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sex Pistols,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Symarip,
UT,
The Skatalites,
The Electric Prunes,
Byron Stingily,
Shuggie Otis,
Shoche,
The Pretty Things,
the Slits,
Camouflage,
Harry Pussy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terry Callier,
Cheater Slicks,
Nico,
Slave,
The Martian,
Thompson Twins,
Darondo,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scientists,
Sister Nancy,
Agent Orange,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sam Rivers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bill Wells,
Zapp,
Model 500,
Cluster,
Ornette Coleman,
Mo-Dettes,
The Black Dice,
The United States of America,
Cymande,
Scrapy,
Glenn Branca,
Stiv Bators,
Davy DMX,
a-ha,
Rites of Spring,
Bronski Beat,
James White and The Blacks,
Jandek,
Gong,
The Dead C,
Derrick May,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nick Fraelich,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.