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 Ukraine 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ 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 The United States of America to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camouflage,
Dead Boys,
The Cure,
Maleditus Sound,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stetsasonic,
Toni Rubio,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Unrelated Segments,
Don Cherry,
Gong,
ABC,
Donald Byrd,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Matthew Bourne,
The Monks,
Eurythmics,
Metal Thangz,
Main Source,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bluetip,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Index,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joensuu 1685,
Kas Product,
AZ,
Boz Scaggs,
The Divine Comedy,
Stereo Dub,
Joy Division,
Technova,
DJ Sneak,
Accadde A,
The Young Rascals,
The Slits,
Patti Smith,
Jerry's Kids,
Gang Green,
One Last Wish,
Johnny Clarke,
Pantaleimon,
Visage,
June of 44,
Charles Mingus,
The Invisible,
Malaria!,
Kenny Larkin,
Warren Ellis,
Deakin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nirvana,
Sun City Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.