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 Palau and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bobby Sherman to the rock 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Hasil Adkins,
Laurel Aitken,
Jawbox,
Niagra,
The Remains,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Spoonie Gee,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fugazi,
Sandy B,
UT,
Lindisfarne,
The Gories,
June of 44,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Durutti Column,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Angels of Light,
Angry Samoans,
Panda Bear,
The Buckinghams,
Nirvana,
Susan Cadogan,
Liliput,
The Mojo Men,
The Victims,
Leonard Cohen,
Ohio Players,
The Invisible,
Skarface,
David Bowie,
ABBA,
The Evens,
The Fall,
Crispy Ambulance,
Chris & Cosey,
Patti Smith,
Quadrant,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
David Axelrod,
The Cure,
Sun Ra,
Faraquet,
Roger Hodgson,
John Cale,
Tommy Roe,
X-101,
Jeff Lynne,
Robert Görl,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T. Rex,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Blancmange,
The Sonics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kevin Saunderson,
A Certain Ratio,
Janne Schatter,
Scion,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.