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 Togo and from Spokane.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Delta 5 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
a-ha,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Seeds,
Mark Hollis,
Livin' Joy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fugazi,
Los Fastidios,
Ralphi Rosario,
Letta Mbulu,
The Invisible,
Moby Grape,
Alison Limerick,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lyres,
China Crisis,
Morten Harket,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Bar-Kays,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cure,
The New Christs,
Section 25,
Ituana,
Pylon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Aswad,
Lakeside,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Germs,
Ornette Coleman,
Soft Cell,
Pole,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Gap Band,
Motorama,
The Beau Brummels,
Minny Pops,
Joy Division,
The American Breed,
Subhumans,
Tommy Roe,
Boz Scaggs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Easy Going,
Kevin Saunderson,
Faraquet,
Bobby Hutcherson,
R.M.O.,
Crime,
Sun City Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cameo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Deakin,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.