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 Romania and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Madrid and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb 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 Jawbox to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Ronnie Foster,
Basic Channel,
Bronski Beat,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Terry Callier,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Liliput,
Tom Boy,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cybotron,
Accadde A,
World's Most,
Skaos,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Skriet,
Dark Day,
The Wake,
Agitation Free,
Barry Ungar,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Count Five,
ABC,
Half Japanese,
Funky Four + One,
Marine Girls,
Ohio Players,
Harpers Bizarre,
The New Christs,
Marmalade,
Ludus,
The Neon Judgement,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nick Fraelich,
Motorama,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Swans,
Davy DMX,
Ultra Naté,
Sex Pistols,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Skatalites,
Bang On A Can,
The Zeros,
In Retrospect,
The Electric Prunes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Divine Comedy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Rhythm & Sound,
Brass Construction,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed,
The Grass Roots,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.