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 Rwanda and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba 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 Minutemen to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
Marine Girls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joey Negro,
Sandy B,
Easy Going,
Audionom,
Arab on Radar,
The Motions,
Toni Rubio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Prince Buster,
L. Decosne,
Thee Headcoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Standells,
Idris Muhammad,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Black Sheep,
Sarah Menescal,
Brass Construction,
CMW,
Urselle,
Dark Day,
Los Fastidios,
The Fire Engines,
Youth Brigade,
Don Cherry,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Moody Blues,
Lightning Bolt,
Sound Behaviour,
Derrick Morgan,
Sparks,
Altered Images,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sällskapet,
Erasure,
Crooked Eye,
Talk Talk,
Rod Modell,
The United States of America,
Rites of Spring,
Icehouse,
Angry Samoans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Peter and Kerry,
Bob Dylan,
Ronan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Index,
Rakim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Adolescents,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Tremeloes,
The Knickerbockers,
H. Thieme,
Joy Division,
Jawbox,
the Association,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.