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 Mexico and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
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 theremin 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan 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?
David Bowie,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nico,
Agent Orange,
Radiohead,
The Toasters,
Make Up,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rekid,
Hardrive,
Fluxion,
Howard Jones,
Tomorrow,
The Mojo Men,
The Fuzztones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Byron Stingily,
A Flock of Seagulls,
John Cale,
Ponytail,
The Monks,
Tres Demented,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Starr,
Moby Grape,
Technova,
Monolake,
The Tremeloes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gang Green,
Dark Day,
Mandrill,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Fraelich,
The Happenings,
Cameo,
Soft Cell,
48th St. Collective,
The Detroit Cobras,
Japan,
Black Moon,
Rapeman,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Symarip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pharoah Sanders,
Surgeon,
X-102,
Camberwell Now,
The Invisible,
Yaz,
Marine Girls,
Buzzcocks,
The Vogues,
Vainqueur,
Qualms,
Kas Product,
Judy Mowatt,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.