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 Jordan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gun Club,
The Associates,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fugs,
The Pop Group,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grey Daturas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Angels of Light,
Howard Jones,
Hardrive,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Count Five,
Trumans Water,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Index,
Fela Kuti,
Funkadelic,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Franke,
DNA,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thee Headcoats,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gang Green,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Boredoms,
UT,
The Cramps,
MDC,
Kurtis Blow,
Animal Collective,
Kayak,
Ronan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marcia Griffiths,
KRS-One,
David McCallum,
Parry Music,
Nick Fraelich,
Idris Muhammad,
Glenn Branca,
Bootsy Collins,
Joe Smooth,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rakim,
Fluxion,
Minny Pops,
Accadde A,
Hoover,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Electric Prunes,
Second Layer,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.