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 Cambodia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Lou Reed & John Cale 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
The Trojans,
The Zeros,
The Stooges,
the Sonics,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
New York Dolls,
Groovy Waters,
Make Up,
The Tremeloes,
Mad Mike,
This Heat,
Parry Music,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wings,
Grauzone,
Roy Ayers,
Au Pairs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Circle Jerks,
Cameo,
Amon Düül II,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kenny Larkin,
Ituana,
Bootsy Collins,
Bobby Sherman,
Grey Daturas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Porter Ricks,
Metal Thangz,
Deadbeat,
The Sound,
Cybotron,
Man Parrish,
Visage,
Suicide,
Eve St. Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Panda Bear,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fire Engines,
10cc,
Prince Buster,
Thompson Twins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pylon,
Talk Talk,
48th St. Collective,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lakeside,
The Busters,
The Pretty Things,
Derrick May,
The Moleskins,
Eden Ahbez,
Jacques Brel,
The Walker Brothers,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.