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 Slovenia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Maleditus Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
Zapp,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rosa Yemen,
Kerri Chandler,
Minutemen,
The Modern Lovers,
Donny Hathaway,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Popol Vuh,
The Golliwogs,
Piero Umiliani,
Danielle Patucci,
Dennis Brown,
Bronski Beat,
Quantec,
Reagan Youth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ralphi Rosario,
Soft Machine,
Little Man,
Shoche,
Altered Images,
Main Source,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
R.M.O.,
Colin Newman,
Radio Birdman,
kango's stein massive,
Mr. Review,
Underground Resistance,
The Fuzztones,
Faust,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mandrill,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Monochrome Set,
Scan 7,
Lindisfarne,
Soft Cell,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marmalade,
Magma,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stiv Bators,
Patti Smith,
Cal Tjader,
The Dirtbombs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
EPMD,
Nirvana,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Althea and Donna,
The J.B.'s,
The Gun Club,
Skaos,
This Heat,
Thompson Twins,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flipper,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.