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 Gabon and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gories to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
The Smoke,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Donald Byrd,
Circle Jerks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sonics,
Dorothy Ashby,
Outsiders,
Main Source,
Janne Schatter,
8 Eyed Spy,
Steve Hackett,
The Buckinghams,
The Wake,
Joe Smooth,
The Gap Band,
Faust,
The New Christs,
The Doors,
Deadbeat,
Television,
Josef K,
Glambeats Corp.,
Siglo XX,
Nils Olav,
Banda Bassotti,
EPMD,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eden Ahbez,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Matthew Halsall,
Loose Ends,
La Düsseldorf,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kenny Larkin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Martian,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Grey Daturas,
Moss Icon,
The Zeros,
Los Fastidios,
Nico,
The Golliwogs,
Junior Murvin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sex Pistols,
Popol Vuh,
Harmonia,
The Cure,
R.M.O.,
Gang Green,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.