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 Zimbabwe and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lou Reed & Metallica 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum 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?
Moss Icon,
Dave Gahan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
CMW,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Association,
Matthew Halsall,
Jandek,
Pantytec,
Soft Cell,
Excepter,
E-Dancer,
June Days,
Tim Buckley,
Unwound,
Godley & Creme,
Thompson Twins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
The Alarm Clocks,
Yaz,
Lungfish,
The Gap Band,
Angry Samoans,
John Foxx,
Television,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Blackbyrds,
Thee Headcoats,
The Sonics,
Crooked Eye,
Flash Fearless,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Sonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sonic Youth,
The Five Americans,
Saccharine Trust,
The Zeros,
Porter Ricks,
Faust,
Faraquet,
Amazonics,
Dark Day,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tommy Roe,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
LL Cool J,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Reuben Wilson,
Negative Approach,
The Doors,
The Dave Clark Five,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Hot Snakes,
Albert Ayler,
Sparks,
AZ,
Mandrill,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.