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 Angola and from Philadelphia.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the electroclash 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Royal Trux,
Suicide,
Guru Guru,
Accadde A,
Circle Jerks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Altered Images,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Clarke,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spoonie Gee,
Brick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
CMW,
Idris Muhammad,
Derrick Morgan,
Pylon,
Banda Bassotti,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deepchord,
Junior Murvin,
Television,
Albert Ayler,
Sonic Youth,
Chrome,
Sound Behaviour,
LL Cool J,
Rekid,
New Order,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lyres,
Ohio Players,
X-102,
DJ Sneak,
A Certain Ratio,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
The Saints,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Throbbing Gristle,
David Axelrod,
Gichy Dan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Piero Umiliani,
Funkadelic,
The Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crooked Eye,
The Smiths,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Y Pants,
The Pretty Things,
Moebius,
Half Japanese,
The Smoke,
Average White Band,
The Techniques,
the Soft Cell,
John Holt,
Mo-Dettes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.