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 Uruguay and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe 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 Symarip to the electroclash 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cameo,
Bauhaus,
Sparks,
Cecil Taylor,
New Order,
Leonard Cohen,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Alice Coltrane,
Rosa Yemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Count Five,
Gregory Isaacs,
The New Christs,
Japan,
Camberwell Now,
Franke,
Cabaret Voltaire,
LL Cool J,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
These Immortal Souls,
The Star Department,
Black Sheep,
T.S.O.L.,
The Blackbyrds,
Alison Limerick,
Mo-Dettes,
Derrick Morgan,
Liliput,
Nirvana,
Deakin,
Althea and Donna,
Dave Gahan,
Royal Trux,
Joy Division,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
The Associates,
Technova,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gong,
Toni Rubio,
Black Flag,
X-102,
Fifty Foot Hose,
K-Klass,
Stiv Bators,
In Retrospect,
Sonic Youth,
Soft Cell,
Frankie Knuckles,
June Days,
The Human League,
Lalann,
Smog,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rod Modell,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gang Starr,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.