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 Greece and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kango’s Stein Massive 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Eli Mardock,
The Names,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
AZ,
Terry Callier,
Pylon,
Bootsy Collins,
Funky Four + One,
Joensuu 1685,
The Smoke,
Gichy Dan,
T.S.O.L.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mandrill,
Circle Jerks,
the Human League,
Rhythm & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Roger Hodgson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Juan Atkins,
Franke,
The Gap Band,
The Stooges,
Pole,
Boz Scaggs,
Goldenarms,
Quadrant,
Soft Cell,
Bad Manners,
Altered Images,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bauhaus,
The Sound,
In Retrospect,
Lou Reed,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bush Tetras,
Cecil Taylor,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eddi Front,
The Flesh Eaters,
Blancmange,
The Fugs,
the Germs,
Bang On A Can,
Toni Rubio,
ABC,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roxette,
Robert Hood,
Heaven 17,
Wally Richardson,
Charles Mingus,
The Evens,
The Vogues,
The Count Five,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.