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 Lebanon and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer 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 Unwound to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Todd Terry,
Fear,
The Leaves,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monks,
The Litter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Stooges,
Das Ding,
Deakin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Anthony Braxton,
Flipper,
The Kinks,
Mission of Burma,
Aswad,
Masters at Work,
Lucky Dragons,
Freddie Wadling,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Arthur Verocai,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Flag,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Organ,
Bill Wells,
Excepter,
Massinfluence,
Mad Mike,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Roxy Music,
Panda Bear,
Jesper Dahlback,
Idris Muhammad,
Duran Duran,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Silicon Teens,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kaleidoscope,
Sugar Minott,
The Modern Lovers,
Maurizio,
Scan 7,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nils Olav,
Schoolly D,
Fugazi,
Agitation Free,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Saints,
Arcadia,
Brothers Johnson,
Heaven 17,
Television,
Ultravox,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Monks,
Faust,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.