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 Oman and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Donald Byrd to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fire Engines,
Groovy Waters,
John Holt,
MC5,
Lee Hazlewood,
Altered Images,
Von Mondo,
Q65,
Monks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gabor Szabo,
Minnie Riperton,
Radiopuhelimet,
Chrome,
Rakim,
Jacques Brel,
Dual Sessions,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Wyatt,
New Order,
Boredoms,
Pantaleimon,
Radio Birdman,
Derrick Morgan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joe Smooth,
Henry Cow,
Colin Newman,
Fatback Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Stooges,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Archie Shepp,
The Young Rascals,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soft Machine,
Trumans Water,
Arab on Radar,
Dave Gahan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ituana,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marvin Gaye,
Barclay James Harvest,
Index,
Mars,
Sällskapet,
Basic Channel,
Ludus,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gories,
In Retrospect,
the Sonics,
Wings,
Rites of Spring,
Nik Kershaw,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fall,
China Crisis,
Gong,
Aswad,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.