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 Spain 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Gil Scott Heron to the funk 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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Echospace,
The Star Department,
Bill Wells,
Juan Atkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Accadde A,
Yusef Lateef,
Barrington Levy,
Oneida,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Black Sheep,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Connie Case,
Whodini,
The Martian,
Todd Rundgren,
Pole,
Jeff Mills,
Ten City,
Soulsonic Force,
Barbara Tucker,
Hot Snakes,
kango's stein massive,
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Newcleus,
Mad Mike,
Bobby Sherman,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sparks,
Crime,
The Monks,
Crooked Eye,
Marine Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
Television,
Charles Mingus,
Marcia Griffiths,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Angry Samoans,
The Blackbyrds,
Marshall Jefferson,
JFA,
Malaria!,
Janne Schatter,
Mantronix,
The Angels of Light,
Banda Bassotti,
Mandrill,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Associates,
Crispian St. Peters,
X-Ray Spex,
Zapp,
the Association,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Zeros,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.