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 Guinea and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rod Modell to the funk 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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Scratch Acid,
X-102,
Kas Product,
Traffic Nightmare,
Supertramp,
the Association,
kango's stein massive,
Agitation Free,
Japan,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
DJ Style,
Sixth Finger,
The Standells,
Pere Ubu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fatback Band,
Neil Young,
Alice Coltrane,
Dave Gahan,
The Real Kids,
DJ Sneak,
Simply Red,
Newcleus,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barry Ungar,
Franke,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Invisible,
Gregory Isaacs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Blossom Toes,
Pantaleimon,
The Blackbyrds,
The Birthday Party,
Black Sheep,
CMW,
Liliput,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Slits,
Gang of Four,
Joensuu 1685,
Quantec,
Young Marble Giants,
Crooked Eye,
The Sound,
The Barracudas,
Yazoo,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Toasters,
Iggy Pop,
Henry Cow,
The Young Rascals,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Grauzone,
Erasure,
Q and Not U,
The Shadows of Knight,
Reuben Wilson,
Delta 5,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Associates,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.