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 India and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 X-102 to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
The Cramps,
Girls At Our Best!,
Alison Limerick,
Mr. Review,
The Last Poets,
MC5,
Qualms,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Piero Umiliani,
UT,
Rapeman,
Circle Jerks,
Flipper,
Cybotron,
Hasil Adkins,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gichy Dan,
Eurythmics,
Alton Ellis,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Sneak,
Bronski Beat,
Deakin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Toni Rubio,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Seeds,
Supertramp,
Flash Fearless,
Babytalk,
Mantronix,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Sherman,
Smog,
The Vogues,
Lightning Bolt,
the Swans,
Skarface,
World's Most,
Wasted Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Slits,
John Lydon,
Bill Wells,
Peter and Kerry,
Sparks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Morten Harket,
the Slits,
Sister Nancy,
Funky Four + One,
Ornette Coleman,
Thompson Twins,
Eli Mardock,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.