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 Solomon Islands and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Ponytail to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Bill Near,
Guru Guru,
The Durutti Column,
Ten City,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lyres,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yaz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Von Mondo,
Lightning Bolt,
Theoretical Girls,
The Residents,
Mars,
Nirvana,
The Tremeloes,
Lee Hazlewood,
OOIOO,
The Wake,
The United States of America,
The Buckinghams,
The Index,
Livin' Joy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Leaves,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skaos,
The Blackbyrds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Harry Pussy,
Thompson Twins,
The Black Dice,
Malaria!,
Gichy Dan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scratch Acid,
the Soft Cell,
Wire,
Lou Reed,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Angry Samoans,
Technova,
Gang of Four,
Brand Nubian,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Arcadia,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pagans,
The Beau Brummels,
Duran Duran,
Clear Light,
Soft Machine,
The Victims,
The Alarm Clocks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.