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 Seychelles and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Aaron Thompson to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Marine Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
Youth Brigade,
China Crisis,
Brothers Johnson,
This Heat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Index,
Robert Görl,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sonics,
Excepter,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
FM Einheit,
Colin Newman,
Guru Guru,
The Remains,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Doors,
Fat Boys,
Sonny Sharrock,
Adolescents,
Q and Not U,
Cluster,
The Litter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Boredoms,
Joey Negro,
Isaac Hayes,
Ice-T,
Masters at Work,
Liliput,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joe Smooth,
Roxy Music,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Fortunes,
New York Dolls,
Bobby Byrd,
The Last Poets,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gap Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Delon & Dalcan,
Model 500,
Lou Christie,
Duran Duran,
Reagan Youth,
Skaos,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marshall Jefferson,
The American Breed,
a-ha,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camberwell Now,
John Holt,
Joe Finger,
Fluxion,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.