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 Micronesia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 clarinet 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 L. Decosne to the grime 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hoover,
Peter & Gordon,
Sister Nancy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mad Mike,
Prince Buster,
The Wake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Accadde A,
New Age Steppers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Letta Mbulu,
EPMD,
Minny Pops,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vainqueur,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Avey Tare,
John Lydon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kurtis Blow,
Wings,
The Real Kids,
Glambeats Corp.,
Patti Smith,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ronan,
DJ Sneak,
kango's stein massive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lee Hazlewood,
Suburban Knight,
The Index,
Schoolly D,
Altered Images,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Motions,
Black Pus,
Pierre Henry,
Fluxion,
The Slits,
Roxette,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nick Fraelich,
Con Funk Shun,
Tim Buckley,
Grauzone,
Byron Stingily,
The Smiths,
Newcleus,
Massinfluence,
Flash Fearless,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.