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 Belarus and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grey Daturas,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Masters at Work,
Warren Ellis,
Pylon,
FM Einheit,
Aswad,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Laurel Aitken,
10cc,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Swans,
Lakeside,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Normal,
Sun Ra,
Steve Hackett,
Shoche,
A Certain Ratio,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marcia Griffiths,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Moebius,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Reagan Youth,
Electric Prunes,
Sixth Finger,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
LL Cool J,
The Mojo Men,
Chrome,
Derrick May,
Mars,
The Gories,
X-Ray Spex,
Monks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tommy Roe,
the Association,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roger Hodgson,
The Real Kids,
Whodini,
Country Teasers,
Man Parrish,
The Happenings,
Delon & Dalcan,
June of 44,
Bronski Beat,
Charles Mingus,
Young Marble Giants,
The J.B.'s,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.