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 Iceland and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 cv313 to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Ohio Players,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Fugs,
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pantaleimon,
The Doors,
Index,
Essential Logic,
the Slits,
Warsaw,
Eden Ahbez,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Count Five,
Camberwell Now,
The Zeros,
Rufus Thomas,
Idris Muhammad,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Birthday Party,
Absolute Body Control,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Kinks,
Altered Images,
The Monochrome Set,
Marc Almond,
Peter & Gordon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sight & Sound,
Maleditus Sound,
Niagra,
Buzzcocks,
Ken Boothe,
Robert Görl,
Moebius,
Don Cherry,
Roger Hodgson,
Alton Ellis,
A Certain Ratio,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nick Fraelich,
Sarah Menescal,
the Normal,
New York Dolls,
Shuggie Otis,
Fugazi,
The Residents,
Davy DMX,
Severed Heads,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Y Pants,
Wolf Eyes,
Adolescents,
10cc,
The Black Dice,
Mantronix,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Walker Brothers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.