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 Swaziland 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the disco 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fatback Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mr. Review,
Wolf Eyes,
Crime,
Kas Product,
June Days,
Joe Finger,
Nick Fraelich,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lindisfarne,
Connie Case,
Idris Muhammad,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bush Tetras,
Camberwell Now,
Procol Harum,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Todd Rundgren,
The Associates,
Siglo XX,
Ornette Coleman,
Panda Bear,
Peter & Gordon,
Bang On A Can,
Technova,
Eli Mardock,
These Immortal Souls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kenny Larkin,
The American Breed,
The J.B.'s,
Visage,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sound,
Janne Schatter,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Warren Ellis,
Dave Gahan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sun Ra,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Glenn Branca,
Leonard Cohen,
The Moleskins,
The Blues Magoos,
Pharoah Sanders,
Matthew Halsall,
The Litter,
Model 500,
Pylon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Whodini,
The Real Kids,
The Black Dice,
LL Cool J,
Pantaleimon,
KRS-One,
John Cale,
K-Klass,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.