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 Luxembourg and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jacob Miller to the rock 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Warren Ellis,
Neu!,
Easy Going,
The Flesh Eaters,
A Certain Ratio,
John Lydon,
X-101,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arcadia,
The Sonics,
Godley & Creme,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rufus Thomas,
The Angels of Light,
X-102,
The Pop Group,
Joe Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yellowson,
Drexciya,
Television Personalities,
Bush Tetras,
The Blackbyrds,
Maleditus Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Matthew Bourne,
Roy Ayers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sixth Finger,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Amazonics,
Deakin,
Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Animal Collective,
The Martian,
In Retrospect,
Pylon,
the Germs,
Swell Maps,
The Slackers,
Underground Resistance,
Kenny Larkin,
The Count Five,
kango's stein massive,
Symarip,
The Dead C,
Nico,
Brass Construction,
Lalann,
The Fall,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
B.T. Express,
Accadde A,
The Moleskins,
Buzzcocks,
Bronski Beat,
The Searchers,
The Fugs,
Talk Talk,
Magazine,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.