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 Kyrgyzstan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer 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 Scratch Acid to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Flash Fearless,
The Skatalites,
Black Sheep,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Golliwogs,
The Wake,
Fad Gadget,
Animal Collective,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eden Ahbez,
Rapeman,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mandrill,
Niagra,
Roxy Music,
Brothers Johnson,
Infiniti,
Godley & Creme,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlback,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pantaleimon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Guru Guru,
Amazonics,
Agitation Free,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Velvet Underground,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Babytalk,
The Music Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
Dual Sessions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Swell Maps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Freddie Wadling,
Bush Tetras,
The Searchers,
Funky Four + One,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Carl Craig,
Kerri Chandler,
Das Ding,
kango's stein massive,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jandek,
Cybotron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rakim,
Circle Jerks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vainqueur,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Pretty Things,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
48th St. Collective,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.