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 France and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator 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 Drive Like Jehu to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Susan Cadogan,
Brick,
Janne Schatter,
The Trojans,
Barclay James Harvest,
Motorama,
Eurythmics,
B.T. Express,
Amon Düül II,
Outsiders,
Sällskapet,
Young Marble Giants,
The Grass Roots,
Bill Near,
Pagans,
Soul II Soul,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Altered Images,
Sam Rivers,
Stetsasonic,
Alison Limerick,
Banda Bassotti,
ABBA,
Dennis Brown,
Fluxion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ponytail,
Flamin' Groovies,
DJ Style,
The Standells,
The New Christs,
The United States of America,
Gang Gang Dance,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joensuu 1685,
John Cale,
James White and The Blacks,
Khruangbin,
David McCallum,
Shuggie Otis,
Negative Approach,
Yellowson,
D'Angelo,
Chris Corsano,
The Leaves,
ABC,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Sonics,
Jerry's Kids,
Infiniti,
EPMD,
Gang of Four,
Malaria!,
Pantytec,
Michelle Simonal,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ice-T,
Excepter,
Dave Gahan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.