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 Vanuatu 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Nile Rodgers 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 disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Monochrome Set,
48th St. Collective,
Groovy Waters,
a-ha,
Al Stewart,
Harmonia,
The Fuzztones,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minnie Riperton,
The Searchers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rites of Spring,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Bananas,
DJ Style,
June Days,
The Busters,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grauzone,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lalann,
The Residents,
Camouflage,
Scratch Acid,
The Slits,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Icehouse,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun Ra,
The Sound,
Public Enemy,
AZ,
Severed Heads,
Amazonics,
Can,
The Stooges,
Aaron Thompson,
John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Jandek,
EPMD,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ultra Naté,
Pet Shop Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Wolf Eyes,
Mandrill,
Patti Smith,
cv313,
Theoretical Girls,
Kas Product,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Detroit Cobras,
Iggy Pop,
Unrelated Segments,
Donald Byrd,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fugs,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.