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 Cambodia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Monolake,
David Bowie,
Neu!,
KRS-One,
Joe Finger,
Flamin' Groovies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
Shoche,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Swans,
Cybotron,
Neil Young,
The Modern Lovers,
The Busters,
Scan 7,
Youth Brigade,
Skriet,
Roy Ayers,
Alice Coltrane,
Marmalade,
Soft Machine,
Eric Dolphy,
Laurel Aitken,
Aswad,
Lucky Dragons,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Womack,
Don Cherry,
Yazoo,
The Grass Roots,
the Fania All-Stars,
Mars,
Pantaleimon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Shadows of Knight,
Main Source,
Marvin Gaye,
The Alarm Clocks,
Motorama,
Cheater Slicks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Simply Red,
Ultravox,
Matthew Halsall,
Soul Sonic Force,
Agitation Free,
Rites of Spring,
Gang of Four,
Chris & Cosey,
The Music Machine,
Tomorrow,
Smog,
The Evens,
Tim Buckley,
Liliput,
Zapp,
Rekid,
Sight & Sound,
Technova,
Alphaville,
The Smiths,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.