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 Nauru and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Taipei.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 U.S. Maple to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
The Trojans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Smog,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Lydon,
Kerri Chandler,
EPMD,
Tom Boy,
Mad Mike,
Kaleidoscope,
Nils Olav,
Q and Not U,
The Pretty Things,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jerry's Kids,
Marcia Griffiths,
Supertramp,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Absolute Body Control,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
Michelle Simonal,
Skriet,
The Names,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kayak,
Subhumans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bang On A Can,
Pagans,
Fela Kuti,
Pussy Galore,
Albert Ayler,
Morten Harket,
Schoolly D,
The Pop Group,
Scan 7,
John Holt,
The Grass Roots,
the Sonics,
Peter & Gordon,
Qualms,
Terrestrial Tones,
Icehouse,
Sixth Finger,
The Misunderstood,
Cal Tjader,
Altered Images,
A Certain Ratio,
Joey Negro,
Flash Fearless,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Talk Talk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
kango's stein massive,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cheater Slicks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.