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 Bahamas and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gang Green 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
ABC,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Invisible,
Surgeon,
Colin Newman,
Lou Christie,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter & Gordon,
Television,
Marvin Gaye,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
L. Decosne,
Minutemen,
The Zeros,
The Count Five,
Crooked Eye,
the Normal,
Bad Manners,
Nils Olav,
Blancmange,
Dorothy Ashby,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Supertramp,
Quando Quango,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Max Romeo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Red Krayola,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Khruangbin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Japan,
Carl Craig,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Oneida,
Skaos,
June of 44,
Joe Finger,
The New Christs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dave Gahan,
Pulsallama,
Suburban Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
Hasil Adkins,
Cymande,
Lebanon Hanover,
The United States of America,
cv313,
The Litter,
The Sonics,
Youth Brigade,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Offenders,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.