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 Finland and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Siglo XX to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Mandrill,
MDC,
Drive Like Jehu,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Sonics,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yaz,
Brand Nubian,
Tim Buckley,
Derrick May,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Can,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dead Boys,
The Gap Band,
Dennis Brown,
Roger Hodgson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Patti Smith,
The Monochrome Set,
The Techniques,
Mars,
Eden Ahbez,
ABC,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ituana,
Soft Cell,
Duran Duran,
Marmalade,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang of Four,
Hot Snakes,
kango's stein massive,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joe Finger,
Erasure,
The Searchers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Anakelly,
James White and The Blacks,
Sparks,
Zero Boys,
K-Klass,
Los Fastidios,
The Saints,
the Normal,
Schoolly D,
Sarah Menescal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Motorama,
Nico,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suicide,
Bobby Byrd,
Kaleidoscope,
Sam Rivers,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.