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 East Timor and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 güiro 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Jerry's Kids,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yazoo,
The Busters,
Fela Kuti,
kango's stein massive,
The Stooges,
Qualms,
One Last Wish,
The Cowsills,
UT,
Absolute Body Control,
Soft Machine,
Scott Walker,
Skaos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ronnie Foster,
Sarah Menescal,
Wire,
Throbbing Gristle,
K-Klass,
Altered Images,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Infiniti,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pagans,
The Star Department,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Underground Resistance,
Thompson Twins,
Moebius,
D'Angelo,
Unrelated Segments,
The Slits,
Soul Sonic Force,
Clear Light,
Symarip,
Camouflage,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Barracudas,
the Soft Cell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moby Grape,
Niagra,
David Axelrod,
Amon Düül II,
Flipper,
Jacob Miller,
June of 44,
Magma,
Joe Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ludus,
Subhumans,
Joy Division,
The Fortunes,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ronan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.