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 Tonga and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Robert Palmer 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 The Happenings to the rap 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Mission of Burma,
Mark Hollis,
Terry Callier,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Siglo XX,
Television Personalities,
Glenn Branca,
The Human League,
Todd Terry,
Jeru the Damaja,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thompson Twins,
The Electric Prunes,
Shoche,
The Happenings,
Alison Limerick,
Grey Daturas,
KRS-One,
June Days,
Oblivians,
Arab on Radar,
A Certain Ratio,
Skriet,
The Pretty Things,
The Victims,
Pierre Henry,
Sixth Finger,
Minutemen,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Dead C,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The New Christs,
Los Fastidios,
Groovy Waters,
Country Teasers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Amon Düül,
Country Joe & The Fish,
L. Decosne,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sight & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Seeds,
Warsaw,
Nik Kershaw,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sister Nancy,
Tubeway Army,
a-ha,
John Holt,
Quando Quango,
Nico,
The Mojo Men,
The Moleskins,
Tears for Fears,
Blossom Toes,
The Star Department,
The Doors,
Ken Boothe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.