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 Latvia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar 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 Ohio Players to the punk 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Doobie Brothers,
Magazine,
Ultravox,
Soulsonic Force,
Jandek,
Rosa Yemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Litter,
Skaos,
The Selecter,
Cameo,
Aaron Thompson,
Cecil Taylor,
Young Marble Giants,
KRS-One,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Durutti Column,
U.S. Maple,
Suburban Knight,
La Düsseldorf,
Rotary Connection,
New Age Steppers,
Sällskapet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
cv313,
Easy Going,
Anakelly,
Television,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Misunderstood,
Cal Tjader,
Lalo Schifrin,
Animal Collective,
Tropical Tobacco,
World's Most,
John Lydon,
X-Ray Spex,
Reagan Youth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roger Hodgson,
Ponytail,
Aloha Tigers,
Can,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Judy Mowatt,
Eli Mardock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Sheep,
Cheater Slicks,
The Cure,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Tremeloes,
T.S.O.L.,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.