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 India and from Salvador.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 H. Thieme to the funk 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Gladiators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
The Cure,
Girls At Our Best!,
Faust,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cramps,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Godley & Creme,
Siglo XX,
Main Source,
Blancmange,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Guru Guru,
Minny Pops,
the Sonics,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Victims,
Tim Buckley,
E-Dancer,
The Pretty Things,
World's Most,
Reagan Youth,
Gong,
OOIOO,
Swans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Organ,
Gang of Four,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sonic Youth,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jeff Lynne,
David McCallum,
The Skatalites,
The Neon Judgement,
The Mummies,
Kayak,
Nick Fraelich,
Alphaville,
Altered Images,
Juan Atkins,
Crash Course in Science,
Terrestrial Tones,
Henry Cow,
The Kinks,
Gregory Isaacs,
The American Breed,
Slick Rick,
Ponytail,
Danielle Patucci,
Aswad,
Black Sheep,
The Residents,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DJ Sneak,
The Slits,
The Young Rascals,
The Gun Club,
Skriet,
Yellowson,
Peter and Kerry,
Sight & Sound,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.