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 Algeria and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar 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 The Cure to the crunk 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
The Doobie Brothers,
Johnny Clarke,
Hashim,
Fugazi,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Sonics,
Pantytec,
Thompson Twins,
Essential Logic,
Matthew Halsall,
Index,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Moss Icon,
Technova,
F. McDonald,
Erasure,
Electric Prunes,
Public Image Ltd.,
U.S. Maple,
The Pop Group,
Massinfluence,
China Crisis,
Main Source,
The Toasters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Negative Approach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sonic Youth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Von Mondo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Fluxion,
Sixth Finger,
Gabor Szabo,
Kerri Chandler,
Slick Rick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gastr Del Sol,
K-Klass,
Surgeon,
Panda Bear,
Al Stewart,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joy Division,
Black Moon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Silicon Teens,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Agitation Free,
kango's stein massive,
Slave,
Toni Rubio,
Quadrant,
Jacques Brel,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.