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 Mexico and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Soul Sonic Force to the rock 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
Roger Hodgson,
Ice-T,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alton Ellis,
Man Parrish,
Black Sheep,
The Selecter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Warren Ellis,
The Cowsills,
China Crisis,
The Busters,
Slick Rick,
Youth Brigade,
Aloha Tigers,
Neu!,
Babytalk,
Lungfish,
Reuben Wilson,
The Pretty Things,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Golliwogs,
Jerry's Kids,
The Red Krayola,
Byron Stingily,
The Alarm Clocks,
X-102,
Minny Pops,
Talk Talk,
June Days,
Peter and Kerry,
Crash Course in Science,
New York Dolls,
Interpol,
T.S.O.L.,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
T. Rex,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hasil Adkins,
KRS-One,
Jeff Lynne,
Procol Harum,
David Bowie,
Japan,
Roxy Music,
Tres Demented,
Moebius,
The Evens,
John Holt,
The Young Rascals,
The Knickerbockers,
The Divine Comedy,
Thee Headcoats,
Reagan Youth,
Q65,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Circle Jerks,
the Germs,
Fugazi,
Make Up,
Jawbox,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.