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 Brazil and from Taipei.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba 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 Television to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Blake Baxter,
Howard Jones,
Oneida,
FM Einheit,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Motions,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Al Stewart,
Severed Heads,
Visage,
The Seeds,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eli Mardock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moleskins,
The Monks,
Alice Coltrane,
The Litter,
X-Ray Spex,
Suburban Knight,
Wire,
The Names,
Echospace,
Scan 7,
Rites of Spring,
Barrington Levy,
Black Moon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Moby Grape,
Boredoms,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cowsills,
B.T. Express,
Morten Harket,
Technova,
Faust,
Soul Sonic Force,
Janne Schatter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gap Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultravox,
The Count Five,
Crispian St. Peters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grauzone,
Dual Sessions,
Ludus,
X-101,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cramps,
Grey Daturas,
Tommy Roe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jeff Lynne,
The Zeros,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.