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 Qatar and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Black Flag to the grime 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Steve Hackett,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Niagra,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Altered Images,
Pharoah Sanders,
Khruangbin,
Rod Modell,
Charles Mingus,
Ronan,
The Selecter,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Slits,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pylon,
Radiohead,
kango's stein massive,
Dark Day,
Joey Negro,
The Alarm Clocks,
Blake Baxter,
Brass Construction,
Negative Approach,
The Dave Clark Five,
Angry Samoans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Television,
Rotary Connection,
Hardrive,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Mummies,
DJ Style,
Faust,
Index,
James White and The Blacks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Prince Buster,
Marvin Gaye,
Television Personalities,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thee Headcoats,
Patti Smith,
The Cowsills,
Letta Mbulu,
Brothers Johnson,
Fat Boys,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Mojo Men,
Boogie Down Productions,
Avey Tare,
The Trojans,
Lightning Bolt,
In Retrospect,
Bootsy Collins,
Chris & Cosey,
Slave,
Pussy Galore,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.