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 Equatorial Guinea and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 clarinet 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the electroclash 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Max Romeo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rakim,
Soft Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
Glenn Branca,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Fugs,
The Kinks,
Malaria!,
Guru Guru,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sugar Minott,
Marine Girls,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Last Poets,
Ossler,
Clear Light,
Wally Richardson,
PIL,
Lakeside,
Man Parrish,
Eric Copeland,
Blake Baxter,
Excepter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ohio Players,
Skriet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rekid,
Scion,
Sex Pistols,
Camouflage,
The Index,
The Mummies,
The Dirtbombs,
Motorama,
The Doors,
Dawn Penn,
Warsaw,
X-102,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Animal Collective,
The Moleskins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Young Rascals,
Pierre Henry,
Radio Birdman,
Davy DMX,
Panda Bear,
Jerry's Kids,
Janne Schatter,
Hasil Adkins,
Robert Görl,
Marc Almond,
John Lydon,
Can,
The J.B.'s,
Fluxion,
Patti Smith,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.