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 Tanzania and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 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 Beau Brummels to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Nas,
The Slits,
David McCallum,
Matthew Bourne,
Susan Cadogan,
Al Stewart,
The Offenders,
Albert Ayler,
Howard Jones,
Nico,
Animal Collective,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mars,
Magma,
Joe Smooth,
The Remains,
Shoche,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gabor Szabo,
Wings,
Danielle Patucci,
Slave,
Radiopuhelimet,
Chris Corsano,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Raincoats,
The Associates,
Brothers Johnson,
Pylon,
X-102,
The Residents,
Zapp,
Steve Hackett,
Black Bananas,
The Cramps,
Silicon Teens,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Quadrant,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Groovy Waters,
Pagans,
The Electric Prunes,
The Moody Blues,
Harmonia,
Angry Samoans,
Bang On A Can,
World's Most,
Archie Shepp,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Godley & Creme,
Hasil Adkins,
Scion,
Pierre Henry,
The Index,
David Axelrod,
Blossom Toes,
FM Einheit,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.