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 China and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 harpsichord 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 Newcleus to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
The Cramps,
Minor Threat,
B.T. Express,
Ice-T,
Ronan,
Fat Boys,
Rekid,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bob Dylan,
Yusef Lateef,
Fear,
Marmalade,
Flash Fearless,
Cheater Slicks,
the Bar-Kays,
Bauhaus,
Warren Ellis,
Joy Division,
Wings,
Traffic Nightmare,
Brass Construction,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sound Behaviour,
Sister Nancy,
These Immortal Souls,
Wally Richardson,
48th St. Collective,
Barclay James Harvest,
LL Cool J,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Smog,
Eli Mardock,
Yellowson,
Nirvana,
The Human League,
Cameo,
The Blues Magoos,
Ponytail,
John Lydon,
Ten City,
The Modern Lovers,
Theoretical Girls,
the Swans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Can,
MDC,
Eyeless In Gaza,
a-ha,
Colin Newman,
Moebius,
Pole,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tom Boy,
Fluxion,
Swell Maps,
U.S. Maple,
The Remains,
The Leaves,
June of 44,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.