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 Jordan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flash Fearless to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
The Star Department,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Bar-Kays,
Tomorrow,
Con Funk Shun,
Quando Quango,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
David Bowie,
Suburban Knight,
The Fire Engines,
Patti Smith,
Pierre Henry,
Thompson Twins,
Jandek,
Brass Construction,
Pussy Galore,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kenny Larkin,
Nils Olav,
the Slits,
Model 500,
Henry Cow,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Neu!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Guru Guru,
Cybotron,
David McCallum,
The Doors,
The Sound,
Anthony Braxton,
Unwound,
Aural Exciters,
Sight & Sound,
Accadde A,
PIL,
Dark Day,
Maleditus Sound,
Robert Görl,
E-Dancer,
Radio Birdman,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Sheep,
Trumans Water,
Junior Murvin,
DJ Sneak,
Godley & Creme,
The Count Five,
The New Christs,
The Zeros,
Joy Division,
Public Enemy,
The United States of America,
The Busters,
Grauzone,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Soulsonic Force,
Pantytec,
Ice-T,
Slave,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.