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 Chile and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Robert Palmer 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 The Zeros to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Can,
Harpers Bizarre,
David McCallum,
Surgeon,
Sparks,
Vladislav Delay,
Matthew Halsall,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deadbeat,
The Dirtbombs,
The Tremeloes,
The Black Dice,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pere Ubu,
The Count Five,
Stiv Bators,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pulsallama,
Babytalk,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roy Ayers,
Alphaville,
The Toasters,
Boredoms,
Guru Guru,
The Wake,
Vainqueur,
Index,
The Moody Blues,
Brass Construction,
Mo-Dettes,
Sandy B,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Litter,
Fat Boys,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Residents,
Marmalade,
Lyres,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fluxion,
JFA,
Subhumans,
The Cure,
Pylon,
The Cramps,
Bob Dylan,
Audionom,
The Fuzztones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Reuben Wilson,
Urselle,
Duran Duran,
The Mojo Men,
MDC,
Radiohead,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.