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 Bremen.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Kenny Larkin,
June of 44,
OOIOO,
Minny Pops,
Spandau Ballet,
The Dirtbombs,
Zero Boys,
Excepter,
B.T. Express,
Ludus,
Spoonie Gee,
The Mighty Diamonds,
June Days,
Erasure,
The Dead C,
Y Pants,
Wally Richardson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
These Immortal Souls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pantytec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mandrill,
The Wake,
Television Personalities,
Mary Jane Girls,
Amon Düül II,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Intrusion,
Todd Rundgren,
The Evens,
K-Klass,
Infiniti,
Bobby Womack,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fad Gadget,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Adolescents,
La Düsseldorf,
Con Funk Shun,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rotary Connection,
Schoolly D,
Deepchord,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
T.S.O.L.,
Mars,
The Fire Engines,
The Detroit Cobras,
Slick Rick,
The Star Department,
The Knickerbockers,
The Red Krayola,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Silicon Teens,
Lower 48,
Echospace,
Fat Boys,
Radio Birdman,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.