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 Panama and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 oboe 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 Peter & Gordon to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Names,
Kas Product,
Index,
Soulsonic Force,
The Walker Brothers,
Byron Stingily,
Nirvana,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Victims,
Sister Nancy,
Sound Behaviour,
The Busters,
The Sound,
Connie Case,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rapeman,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Silicon Teens,
Youth Brigade,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Techniques,
Archie Shepp,
The Birthday Party,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marine Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
Amon Düül II,
Shuggie Otis,
Schoolly D,
U.S. Maple,
Derrick May,
Stetsasonic,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Red Krayola,
Dark Day,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
Radiohead,
The Alarm Clocks,
Morten Harket,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Young Rascals,
Audionom,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
Alton Ellis,
The Pretty Things,
Soft Cell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Technova,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Metal Thangz,
June Days,
Tres Demented,
Franke,
New Order,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.