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 Dominican Republic and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Drive Like Jehu to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Scott Walker,
Agitation Free,
The Vogues,
The Mummies,
Thompson Twins,
The United States of America,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Byron Stingily,
One Last Wish,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cluster,
The Moody Blues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Godley & Creme,
Marine Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
the Normal,
Urselle,
Bobby Byrd,
Wasted Youth,
Duran Duran,
Brothers Johnson,
Pantaleimon,
Excepter,
Sparks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Martian,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Archie Shepp,
Liliput,
Albert Ayler,
The Motions,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Throbbing Gristle,
World's Most,
Wings,
Barclay James Harvest,
Swans,
Monolake,
Average White Band,
Cybotron,
Eurythmics,
The Victims,
Tommy Roe,
Wire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rites of Spring,
Avey Tare,
Marc Almond,
The Smiths,
Arthur Verocai,
a-ha,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Symarip,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fortunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Robert Görl,
Model 500,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.