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 Latvia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
The Toasters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Thompson Twins,
Nirvana,
Graham Central Station,
Neu!,
Stereo Dub,
Pagans,
Eric Copeland,
Nas,
Scratch Acid,
Monolake,
In Retrospect,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scion,
The Monochrome Set,
Can,
Pulsallama,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Blackbyrds,
Pantytec,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mo-Dettes,
Laurel Aitken,
The Busters,
Main Source,
Slave,
Jesper Dahlback,
Silicon Teens,
MC5,
Bad Manners,
The Stooges,
Severed Heads,
Easy Going,
The Gladiators,
Michelle Simonal,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Theoretical Girls,
Popol Vuh,
Bill Near,
Minor Threat,
Gerry Rafferty,
Man Parrish,
DJ Style,
48th St. Collective,
The Slackers,
Radiohead,
Skarface,
The Gories,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare,
T. Rex,
The Techniques,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cybotron,
Sun City Girls,
Hashim,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.