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 Sri Lanka and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Chris Corsano to the disco 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Music Machine,
Scientists,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shoche,
Rod Modell,
Flash Fearless,
Erykah Badu,
Erasure,
Mr. Review,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultravox,
Lindisfarne,
Terry Callier,
John Coltrane,
Camberwell Now,
Ponytail,
Sun Ra,
Aural Exciters,
Grey Daturas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Human League,
Johnny Osbourne,
Stetsasonic,
The Leaves,
Marmalade,
Warren Ellis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fatback Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Brass Construction,
Eric Dolphy,
Warsaw,
Lightning Bolt,
Popol Vuh,
The United States of America,
Crispian St. Peters,
Drive Like Jehu,
DNA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Barbara Tucker,
These Immortal Souls,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Association,
John Cale,
Bob Dylan,
Agitation Free,
Suicide,
Yusef Lateef,
The Invisible,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nick Fraelich,
Skriet,
Todd Rundgren,
Malaria!,
La Düsseldorf,
Swans,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.