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 Egypt and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Michelle Simonal to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Michelle Simonal,
Derrick Morgan,
Pierre Henry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pagans,
The Gap Band,
The Dead C,
Aaron Thompson,
Accadde A,
The Monochrome Set,
Eric Copeland,
ABBA,
Boredoms,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mandrill,
Ronnie Foster,
Jerry's Kids,
CMW,
Anakelly,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Trumans Water,
The Birthday Party,
La Düsseldorf,
Youth Brigade,
Essential Logic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Grass Roots,
Procol Harum,
X-102,
Public Enemy,
Rosa Yemen,
Bush Tetras,
Barbara Tucker,
Connie Case,
The Slackers,
Scrapy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hashim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wasted Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Drexciya,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Bar-Kays,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Slits,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
The Blues Magoos,
The Young Rascals,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ultravox,
Franke,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.