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 Bolivia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Scientists to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Pantytec,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
LL Cool J,
Pet Shop Boys,
Darondo,
James White and The Blacks,
Hoover,
Model 500,
Avey Tare,
Liliput,
Leonard Cohen,
Mo-Dettes,
Basic Channel,
Malaria!,
John Coltrane,
Bill Near,
cv313,
Scratch Acid,
Morten Harket,
Byron Stingily,
Black Moon,
The Busters,
Flipper,
Lower 48,
Minutemen,
Blossom Toes,
Warren Ellis,
Radiohead,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Idris Muhammad,
Robert Wyatt,
Lindisfarne,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cheater Slicks,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Vogues,
John Foxx,
The Happenings,
Black Bananas,
the Bar-Kays,
Bobby Sherman,
Youth Brigade,
The Evens,
A Certain Ratio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hardrive,
The Barracudas,
Faust,
L. Decosne,
The Red Krayola,
Saccharine Trust,
Lightning Bolt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Technova,
Minnie Riperton,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
EPMD,
The Fall,
Stetsasonic,
Marcia Griffiths,
Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti.
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.