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 New Zealand and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Saints to the electroclash 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Shuggie Otis,
Niagra,
Thompson Twins,
Schoolly D,
Nirvana,
The Gun Club,
The Litter,
MC5,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Frankie Knuckles,
Blancmange,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Wake,
Alison Limerick,
This Heat,
Chris & Cosey,
The Searchers,
Minutemen,
The Barracudas,
The Flesh Eaters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Robert Hood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Section 25,
a-ha,
The Raincoats,
The New Christs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pere Ubu,
Unwound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Oblivians,
The Busters,
Gabor Szabo,
Smog,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Star Department,
Audionom,
Das Ding,
The Cramps,
E-Dancer,
Lyres,
Quantec,
Arthur Verocai,
The Black Dice,
Zapp,
The Leaves,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sight & Sound,
The Human League,
The Modern Lovers,
Sixth Finger,
Groovy Waters,
the Sonics,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.