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 Peru 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the grunge 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T. Rex,
Smog,
The Index,
Vladislav Delay,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Coltrane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ituana,
the Swans,
The Offenders,
The Move,
Alice Coltrane,
Quantec,
Skarface,
Outsiders,
In Retrospect,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Roxette,
Khruangbin,
Chrome,
the Slits,
Johnny Clarke,
Mantronix,
Donald Byrd,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Reuben Wilson,
Todd Rundgren,
Camberwell Now,
CMW,
Sugar Minott,
Nas,
Glambeats Corp.,
Inner City,
Buzzcocks,
The Young Rascals,
The United States of America,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Victims,
Average White Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Basic Channel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kaleidoscope,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young,
the Germs,
Tim Buckley,
The Monochrome Set,
Maleditus Sound,
The Slits,
Second Layer,
Kenny Larkin,
kango's stein massive,
Bronski Beat,
The Evens,
Zero Boys,
Joe Finger,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.