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 El Salvador and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 arpeggiator 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 New Order to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kas Product,
Lou Christie,
Infiniti,
John Holt,
The Buckinghams,
Leonard Cohen,
The Seeds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Von Mondo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Alice Coltrane,
The Techniques,
a-ha,
Sun Ra,
The Move,
Massinfluence,
the Bar-Kays,
Lee Hazlewood,
Quadrant,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lower 48,
The Skatalites,
Roger Hodgson,
Simply Red,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eric Copeland,
Jandek,
Little Man,
Oblivians,
Sister Nancy,
Lightning Bolt,
Boredoms,
Pere Ubu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Silicon Teens,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Youth Brigade,
Rites of Spring,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Joe Finger,
Scratch Acid,
The Birthday Party,
Anakelly,
Gang of Four,
Todd Rundgren,
Chris Corsano,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantytec,
Mad Mike,
Bauhaus,
The American Breed,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.