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 San Marino and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Drive Like Jehu to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
June Days,
Mandrill,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gories,
Juan Atkins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ossler,
Flipper,
Eric Copeland,
Bill Near,
Rhythm & Sound,
Vainqueur,
Todd Terry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
L. Decosne,
Lakeside,
Eric B and Rakim,
Quando Quango,
The Selecter,
Black Moon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Basic Channel,
Lucky Dragons,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Accadde A,
Skriet,
Yellowson,
Fatback Band,
Organ,
Minny Pops,
Agent Orange,
One Last Wish,
Marc Almond,
Stiv Bators,
Sandy B,
The Star Department,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blancmange,
Sun Ra,
Dave Gahan,
Average White Band,
Rapeman,
Von Mondo,
The American Breed,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Tremeloes,
The Fortunes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Birthday Party,
Scan 7,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Spoonie Gee,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Angry Samoans,
Quantec,
The Real Kids,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.