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 Kiribati and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet 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 Ralphi Rosario to the electroclash 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
E-Dancer,
Cluster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Michelle Simonal,
Amon Düül II,
Underground Resistance,
X-102,
The Martian,
Grauzone,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gladiators,
Peter and Kerry,
Tears for Fears,
Roy Ayers,
Moby Grape,
Skriet,
Minutemen,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Frankie Knuckles,
Robert Görl,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Monks,
Alison Limerick,
Heaven 17,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Idris Muhammad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sparks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
X-101,
Ronan,
Tim Buckley,
Colin Newman,
Donald Byrd,
A Certain Ratio,
Icehouse,
The Human League,
Gong,
Darondo,
Oblivians,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rites of Spring,
Monolake,
Scrapy,
Harmonia,
New Order,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nick Fraelich,
Flipper,
The Associates,
Dark Day,
Swans,
Stereo Dub,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cameo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Searchers,
Saccharine Trust,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.