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 Canada and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 June of 44 to the funk 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
Warsaw,
The Gladiators,
Soft Cell,
Echospace,
Bush Tetras,
Rakim,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rhythm & Sound,
Al Stewart,
MDC,
Harmonia,
Franke,
Minny Pops,
In Retrospect,
K-Klass,
Eden Ahbez,
Scientists,
Bill Wells,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roy Ayers,
Zero Boys,
JFA,
The Names,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Swans,
Faust,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
Shoche,
Groovy Waters,
Kayak,
Charles Mingus,
Joe Smooth,
Main Source,
Parry Music,
Hoover,
Adolescents,
Man Parrish,
Barbara Tucker,
Technova,
Warren Ellis,
Pagans,
Popol Vuh,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tubeway Army,
Iggy Pop,
The Standells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Toasters,
cv313,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roxette,
The Wake,
Inner City,
The Busters,
Jerry's Kids,
Minnie Riperton,
Matthew Halsall,
Cheater Slicks,
Mark Hollis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.