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 Bolivia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pulsallama to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
The Slackers,
Faust,
Monks,
R.M.O.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Malaria!,
Quando Quango,
Mission of Burma,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amon Düül II,
Q and Not U,
Ken Boothe,
Fear,
Aural Exciters,
the Slits,
Blossom Toes,
The Velvet Underground,
Gang of Four,
Black Flag,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Young Rascals,
Ice-T,
Alphaville,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fad Gadget,
Sarah Menescal,
Electric Prunes,
The Martian,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bad Manners,
Youth Brigade,
Davy DMX,
Chris Corsano,
The Cure,
The Gap Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultra Naté,
Lungfish,
Tom Boy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yazoo,
Delta 5,
Soulsonic Force,
Minor Threat,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Swans,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cowsills,
Rosa Yemen,
Brass Construction,
The Misunderstood,
Fatback Band,
Soul II Soul,
Wire,
Sunsets and Hearts,
8 Eyed Spy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jawbox,
Sam Rivers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.