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 Kazakhstan and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 Public Image Ltd. to the crunk 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Freddie Wadling,
Thee Headcoats,
The Leaves,
Joe Finger,
Letta Mbulu,
Gang Green,
The Electric Prunes,
Depeche Mode,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flash Fearless,
Section 25,
Minnie Riperton,
Roy Ayers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crime,
Panda Bear,
Camberwell Now,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Doors,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
cv313,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ponytail,
Barrington Levy,
Fad Gadget,
Ultravox,
The United States of America,
Henry Cow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Duran Duran,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Slits,
Intrusion,
The Toasters,
Ituana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Normal,
Vladislav Delay,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Glenn Branca,
Rapeman,
Alice Coltrane,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Circle Jerks,
Crooked Eye,
The American Breed,
the Swans,
Sound Behaviour,
Althea and Donna,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Anthony Braxton,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Litter,
MDC,
Bob Dylan,
Barbara Tucker,
June Days,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.