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 Somalia and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Iggy Pop to the punk 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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Sandy B,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Residents,
Cheater Slicks,
Joy Division,
Model 500,
Depeche Mode,
Howard Jones,
Motorama,
Public Enemy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joensuu 1685,
Amon Düül II,
The Gories,
Nas,
Crispy Ambulance,
Banda Bassotti,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Cowsills,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tomorrow,
Surgeon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wally Richardson,
The Moleskins,
PIL,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Christie,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Motions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Desert Stars,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Warren Ellis,
Sight & Sound,
KRS-One,
The Fall,
The Move,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Invisible,
The Skatalites,
Alphaville,
Joyce Sims,
Dawn Penn,
Anthony Braxton,
Au Pairs,
Icehouse,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dead Boys,
Negative Approach,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Laurel Aitken,
In Retrospect,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.