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 Marshall Islands and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the grunge 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fat Boys,
DJ Sneak,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Wyatt,
Swans,
Groovy Waters,
Theoretical Girls,
Josef K,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nick Fraelich,
Sound Behaviour,
Skarface,
Freddie Wadling,
The Trojans,
Ultravox,
Japan,
Thompson Twins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fela Kuti,
Danielle Patucci,
OOIOO,
The Divine Comedy,
Arcadia,
New York Dolls,
Ohio Players,
AZ,
Lou Reed,
Roxette,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Count Five,
Oneida,
MC5,
Q and Not U,
The Real Kids,
The Index,
Pharoah Sanders,
kango's stein massive,
Toni Rubio,
Alphaville,
Deepchord,
Frankie Knuckles,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wire,
The Sonics,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Techniques,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultra Naté,
Qualms,
Dennis Brown,
Rhythm & Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nico,
a-ha,
Niagra,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
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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.