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 Panama and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 The Residents to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Nico,
Reagan Youth,
Rufus Thomas,
Connie Case,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scientists,
the Normal,
The Smoke,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Masters at Work,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nik Kershaw,
Eddi Front,
Subhumans,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Barracudas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Unwound,
Depeche Mode,
Duran Duran,
Charles Mingus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Steve Hackett,
The Real Kids,
The Evens,
Amon Düül II,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wasted Youth,
Heaven 17,
This Heat,
The J.B.'s,
Mars,
Country Teasers,
Y Pants,
Hardrive,
Mantronix,
Gang of Four,
Metal Thangz,
ABBA,
Ultravox,
Lou Reed,
Darondo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Moleskins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sight & Sound,
Lakeside,
Fear,
Section 25,
Trumans Water,
Royal Trux,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Saints,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Susan Cadogan,
Blossom Toes,
The Slackers,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.