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 Germany and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 Easy Going to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Royal Trux,
Alphaville,
Malaria!,
Monolake,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Supertramp,
The Fire Engines,
The Slits,
Rotary Connection,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
F. McDonald,
Depeche Mode,
Drexciya,
The Index,
Reagan Youth,
Rapeman,
Tres Demented,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bobby Womack,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Monks,
Agitation Free,
Groovy Waters,
Thee Headcoats,
Pussy Galore,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Arthur Verocai,
Adolescents,
Magazine,
Outsiders,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Sonics,
Sugar Minott,
Joensuu 1685,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kayak,
Heaven 17,
Leonard Cohen,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Görl,
Motorama,
The Fugs,
Khruangbin,
The Associates,
Rod Modell,
Isaac Hayes,
Funkadelic,
Connie Case,
Mantronix,
Panda Bear,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wasted Youth,
Model 500,
Lindisfarne,
Crash Course in Science,
Crispian St. Peters,
Johnny Clarke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.