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 Peru and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Circle Jerks to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Chrome,
Shuggie Otis,
Youth Brigade,
The United States of America,
Barbara Tucker,
Soulsonic Force,
Von Mondo,
Eden Ahbez,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lightning Bolt,
Aaron Thompson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Gun Club,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dual Sessions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Saccharine Trust,
Warsaw,
Camberwell Now,
Joe Smooth,
Urselle,
Quantec,
The Five Americans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Funky Four + One,
The Fortunes,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fire Engines,
Depeche Mode,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Godley & Creme,
CMW,
Nils Olav,
Tres Demented,
Slave,
The Misunderstood,
Wings,
Prince Buster,
The Electric Prunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Raincoats,
Alice Coltrane,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Litter,
Eurythmics,
Minny Pops,
Sun Ra,
Donald Byrd,
Moby Grape,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mandrill,
the Sonics,
Rapeman,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.