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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb 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 The Buckinghams to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
The Names,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tommy Roe,
Motorama,
Funky Four + One,
Arthur Verocai,
Alphaville,
The Last Poets,
Vainqueur,
X-Ray Spex,
Barclay James Harvest,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Infiniti,
The Gap Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Gladiators,
Sam Rivers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Visage,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ituana,
The Tremeloes,
Johnny Clarke,
Bad Manners,
Delta 5,
Traffic Nightmare,
The United States of America,
Lower 48,
Duran Duran,
The Slits,
Leonard Cohen,
Massinfluence,
Derrick May,
X-101,
Malaria!,
Subhumans,
New Order,
The Busters,
These Immortal Souls,
The Dirtbombs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rapeman,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Unrelated Segments,
Animal Collective,
Lalann,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Reed,
The Toasters,
Lou Christie,
Saccharine Trust,
Davy DMX,
Organ,
Anthony Braxton,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grauzone,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.