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 Mauritius and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Quantec to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter 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?
Lower 48,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
MDC,
The Wake,
Blossom Toes,
Basic Channel,
Agent Orange,
Main Source,
Malaria!,
Young Marble Giants,
Panda Bear,
Rapeman,
Visage,
cv313,
The Doors,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Massinfluence,
Severed Heads,
Matthew Halsall,
Kas Product,
Make Up,
Sugar Minott,
Bill Near,
Average White Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marshall Jefferson,
New Age Steppers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Raincoats,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Lydon,
Mission of Burma,
Porter Ricks,
Marine Girls,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Star Department,
Monks,
Jandek,
The Cure,
Brick,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tubeway Army,
Cluster,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Davy DMX,
The Moody Blues,
The Durutti Column,
Sarah Menescal,
Boredoms,
the Normal,
Lightning Bolt,
Eve St. Jones,
Crime,
Babytalk,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
The Sonics,
Echospace,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.