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 Kosovo and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar 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 Technova to the dance 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
The Red Krayola,
Unwound,
Barry Ungar,
Minny Pops,
The Evens,
Procol Harum,
Kayak,
the Slits,
Bad Manners,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Soft Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kaleidoscope,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Brand Nubian,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Beau Brummels,
Altered Images,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blues Magoos,
The Fortunes,
Charles Mingus,
The Monochrome Set,
Derrick Morgan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hashim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barrington Levy,
Livin' Joy,
David McCallum,
Bill Wells,
Steve Hackett,
Porter Ricks,
The New Christs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nas,
Don Cherry,
The Saints,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Byrd,
Hasil Adkins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gladiators,
Soulsonic Force,
Aural Exciters,
Subhumans,
The Move,
Sugar Minott,
The Leaves,
The Black Dice,
The Modern Lovers,
Jerry's Kids,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Carl Craig,
The Slits,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.