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 Finland and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 David Axelrod to the disco 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sister Nancy,
Porter Ricks,
Scion,
The Vogues,
Eurythmics,
Ornette Coleman,
Tomorrow,
Jandek,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Velvet Underground,
Stereo Dub,
Franke,
The Cramps,
Bill Near,
Rufus Thomas,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Faust,
The Motions,
Negative Approach,
Pagans,
48th St. Collective,
Maleditus Sound,
X-102,
Hashim,
Simply Red,
The J.B.'s,
Echospace,
Livin' Joy,
Joensuu 1685,
X-101,
Roxette,
Aaron Thompson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Shoche,
Inner City,
Alton Ellis,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Fuzztones,
Donald Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cheater Slicks,
The Neon Judgement,
Kas Product,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lebanon Hanover,
Basic Channel,
The Remains,
Henry Cow,
Average White Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Flash Fearless,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bluetip,
The Zeros,
Audionom,
The Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.