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 Armenia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Cale to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rod Modell,
X-101,
Henry Cow,
The Walker Brothers,
Joe Smooth,
The Moleskins,
Bluetip,
Josef K,
Buzzcocks,
Bobby Sherman,
Terrestrial Tones,
Delta 5,
In Retrospect,
Wasted Youth,
Ultravox,
Robert Wyatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boz Scaggs,
Public Enemy,
Q and Not U,
Visage,
Soulsonic Force,
Eric Copeland,
Livin' Joy,
Sight & Sound,
Amon Düül II,
Massinfluence,
Rekid,
Ossler,
Maleditus Sound,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Suicide,
48th St. Collective,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skaos,
Ultra Naté,
the Bar-Kays,
Gastr Del Sol,
Heaven 17,
Alison Limerick,
The Tremeloes,
Cameo,
Funkadelic,
Tomorrow,
The Fortunes,
Accadde A,
Oneida,
Quadrant,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
Motorama,
The United States of America,
Unwound,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.