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 Germany and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hashim to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Erasure,
Alison Limerick,
Rapeman,
Eurythmics,
Average White Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Vladislav Delay,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fluxion,
Cameo,
John Coltrane,
Dorothy Ashby,
Charles Mingus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nik Kershaw,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Brand Nubian,
Hot Snakes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Sound,
Icehouse,
The United States of America,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Andrew Hill,
Massinfluence,
Freddie Wadling,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Angels of Light,
Morten Harket,
Fear,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Happenings,
Moby Grape,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
Junior Murvin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Raincoats,
The Velvet Underground,
Boogie Down Productions,
Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Foxx,
Monks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
This Heat,
the Swans,
Motorama,
Throbbing Gristle,
La Düsseldorf,
R.M.O.,
Anthony Braxton,
New York Dolls,
Nico,
Tim Buckley,
Bang On A Can,
Ornette Coleman,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.