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 Niger and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Donald Byrd,
Soft Cell,
X-101,
Q65,
Derrick May,
The Skatalites,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABBA,
Pussy Galore,
Parry Music,
Max Romeo,
Marmalade,
Althea and Donna,
Lakeside,
Fad Gadget,
MC5,
Scan 7,
Chrome,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rakim,
Ten City,
Robert Hood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Motorama,
The Young Rascals,
Wolf Eyes,
Steve Hackett,
Jerry's Kids,
Flash Fearless,
Television Personalities,
Scrapy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Charles Mingus,
Scion,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Litter,
Ponytail,
Severed Heads,
Sparks,
Radiohead,
The Five Americans,
Banda Bassotti,
The Durutti Column,
Connie Case,
Slave,
E-Dancer,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultravox,
48th St. Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Outsiders,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The American Breed,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.