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 Cameroon and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Alphaville to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DNA,
Glambeats Corp.,
UT,
Roy Ayers,
The Monks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Index,
The Dirtbombs,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Sound,
Robert Görl,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Durutti Column,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Talk Talk,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Chrome,
Stiv Bators,
The Walker Brothers,
The Index,
Bauhaus,
Fugazi,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deadbeat,
Swans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Michelle Simonal,
Fluxion,
Aswad,
The Standells,
Magma,
Intrusion,
Trumans Water,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Unwound,
Barbara Tucker,
The Slits,
Anakelly,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Alphaville,
Funky Four + One,
The Cramps,
Warsaw,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rakim,
Organ,
Lou Reed,
Faraquet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Loose Ends,
Chris Corsano,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Janne Schatter,
Nas,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.