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 Solomon Islands and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Scratch Acid to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes 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 sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Arab on Radar,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Porter Ricks,
Quantec,
Man Parrish,
Jandek,
Surgeon,
Ten City,
Ultra Naté,
Mars,
Bluetip,
Fatback Band,
The Wake,
Idris Muhammad,
Magma,
Janne Schatter,
The Associates,
Country Teasers,
The Names,
Pere Ubu,
Sight & Sound,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
Bob Dylan,
Inner City,
Simply Red,
Prince Buster,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Raincoats,
Scientists,
Negative Approach,
Tommy Roe,
T.S.O.L.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Smiths,
Vladislav Delay,
Barbara Tucker,
Cal Tjader,
Skaos,
Moss Icon,
Joensuu 1685,
The Tremeloes,
Aloha Tigers,
Icehouse,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Guru Guru,
Unwound,
Ralphi Rosario,
Donald Byrd,
The Cure,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Faust,
Fugazi,
Rapeman,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Matthew Bourne,
Outsiders,
Pagans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.