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 Costa Rica and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Interpol to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Gang of Four,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Searchers,
Gang Starr,
Grauzone,
The Beau Brummels,
Wire,
Hot Snakes,
Juan Atkins,
X-Ray Spex,
John Cale,
Hasil Adkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Second Layer,
Vainqueur,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gong,
Qualms,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Warsaw,
The Modern Lovers,
Roxette,
Cybotron,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scan 7,
Joyce Sims,
Los Fastidios,
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Slits,
Flipper,
The Seeds,
R.M.O.,
Subhumans,
Leonard Cohen,
The J.B.'s,
Tim Buckley,
Negative Approach,
Groovy Waters,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-102,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fuzztones,
Ultimate Spinach,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Blues Magoos,
Average White Band,
Hardrive,
The Smiths,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Sheep,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.