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 Kosovo and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
The Selecter,
Letta Mbulu,
Icehouse,
World's Most,
the Human League,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Q65,
Lou Christie,
X-102,
The Birthday Party,
Kerrie Biddell,
Derrick May,
Reuben Wilson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hasil Adkins,
Wolf Eyes,
Sandy B,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eric Copeland,
Bootsy Collins,
Quadrant,
Quantec,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Remains,
Parry Music,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
Swans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minor Threat,
Delta 5,
David Bowie,
Hashim,
Lightning Bolt,
Eddi Front,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Das Ding,
The Walker Brothers,
Lakeside,
Terry Callier,
Stereo Dub,
Newcleus,
Stetsasonic,
The Doors,
The Martian,
Angry Samoans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Slave,
Prince Buster,
Junior Murvin,
Sixth Finger,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Banda Bassotti,
The Red Krayola,
Jimmy McGriff,
New York Dolls,
Technova,
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.