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 Montenegro and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Guru Guru to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Infiniti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Stiv Bators,
Curtis Mayfield,
X-102,
The Blackbyrds,
Organ,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
PIL,
Crooked Eye,
Pussy Galore,
Yellowson,
Pantytec,
Franke,
The Blues Magoos,
The Young Rascals,
The Vogues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Max Romeo,
the Sonics,
Ronnie Foster,
The Happenings,
Visage,
Y Pants,
The Modern Lovers,
Little Man,
FM Einheit,
Moebius,
Negative Approach,
Ludus,
48th St. Collective,
MC5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The American Breed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Foxx,
Tom Boy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Vladislav Delay,
Lower 48,
U.S. Maple,
Hot Snakes,
The Grass Roots,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun City Girls,
Lyres,
Johnny Osbourne,
Model 500,
Erykah Badu,
the Soft Cell,
Juan Atkins,
Underground Resistance,
Anthony Braxton,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Q65,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Procol Harum,
Bob Dylan,
David McCallum,
Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.