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 Greece and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Model 500,
Neu!,
Joey Negro,
The Associates,
Quando Quango,
Von Mondo,
Scion,
Joensuu 1685,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Underground Resistance,
Tommy Roe,
Dave Gahan,
Gabor Szabo,
Stiv Bators,
Warren Ellis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Minutemen,
Minor Threat,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Dead C,
10cc,
Little Man,
Soulsonic Force,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dual Sessions,
Talk Talk,
Rod Modell,
Public Enemy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Saccharine Trust,
The Skatalites,
The Evens,
Wire,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scrapy,
Black Sheep,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pylon,
Magma,
Tomorrow,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fugazi,
These Immortal Souls,
Stetsasonic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Organ,
The Cramps,
Y Pants,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Blackbyrds,
Tom Boy,
Excepter,
The Gladiators,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nik Kershaw,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Flag,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.