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 Italy and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 CMW to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Eden Ahbez,
L. Decosne,
ABBA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Easy Going,
Kaleidoscope,
Mad Mike,
The Electric Prunes,
Erasure,
Newcleus,
Lalann,
Curtis Mayfield,
These Immortal Souls,
Shuggie Otis,
Scratch Acid,
Severed Heads,
Joey Negro,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tubeway Army,
Whodini,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agitation Free,
Sun City Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cheater Slicks,
Sugar Minott,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bob Dylan,
The Skatalites,
Aloha Tigers,
Steve Hackett,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
U.S. Maple,
Can,
Bobby Sherman,
Colin Newman,
Schoolly D,
FM Einheit,
Cybotron,
Grey Daturas,
Kerri Chandler,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ice-T,
Lungfish,
Vladislav Delay,
Deepchord,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tim Buckley,
Harry Pussy,
H. Thieme,
Livin' Joy,
Ken Boothe,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.