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 Samoa and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Ice-T 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
cv313,
KRS-One,
Desert Stars,
The Searchers,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Public Enemy,
Country Teasers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Don Cherry,
the Association,
Zero Boys,
The Victims,
Patti Smith,
Crispy Ambulance,
Josef K,
The Count Five,
Depeche Mode,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Aaron Thompson,
Jacob Miller,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Peter and Kerry,
Archie Shepp,
Youth Brigade,
The Star Department,
Sällskapet,
Blossom Toes,
Spoonie Gee,
Radio Birdman,
Yellowson,
Cymande,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gabor Szabo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
EPMD,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Harmonia,
Jerry's Kids,
Talk Talk,
Infiniti,
the Slits,
Mary Jane Girls,
Susan Cadogan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Radiohead,
the Soft Cell,
Mad Mike,
The Fall,
Outsiders,
Hasil Adkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marvin Gaye,
10cc,
Magazine,
Suburban Knight,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bill Near,
the Sonics,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.