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 Bahamas and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Aural Exciters to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Motorama,
June Days,
cv313,
Howard Jones,
Cameo,
The Gories,
Liliput,
Monolake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Black Sheep,
Hardrive,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Five Americans,
Gang of Four,
Jeff Lynne,
Todd Rundgren,
ABC,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crime,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rites of Spring,
Sister Nancy,
Q65,
Sandy B,
Pagans,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camouflage,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moby Grape,
Althea and Donna,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Guru Guru,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Birthday Party,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Zapp,
Average White Band,
Jawbox,
Jeff Mills,
The Velvet Underground,
Ornette Coleman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tommy Roe,
Eden Ahbez,
The Music Machine,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Zeros,
Charles Mingus,
Faust,
Jandek,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kas Product,
James White and The Blacks,
MDC,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Vainqueur,
Byron Stingily,
Yazoo,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.