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 Senegal and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the electroclash 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camberwell Now,
Country Teasers,
Flash Fearless,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Young Marble Giants,
Monolake,
Goldenarms,
Boz Scaggs,
Jeff Mills,
Echospace,
Magma,
Pagans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Can,
The Evens,
Vladislav Delay,
The Sonics,
Joy Division,
Letta Mbulu,
Laurel Aitken,
Gang Gang Dance,
X-101,
The Monks,
Zero Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dave Clark Five,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Barracudas,
Au Pairs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Silicon Teens,
R.M.O.,
Babytalk,
Quando Quango,
The Velvet Underground,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Litter,
Rekid,
The Young Rascals,
New Order,
The Smoke,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Dolphy,
Underground Resistance,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Man Parrish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Television,
Drexciya,
Ornette Coleman,
Ituana,
Marshall Jefferson,
The New Christs,
48th St. Collective,
Depeche Mode,
Bob Dylan,
The Toasters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
EPMD,
Toni Rubio,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.