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 Switzerland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Newcleus to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
LL Cool J,
Half Japanese,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Evens,
David Axelrod,
The Moleskins,
Panda Bear,
The Shadows of Knight,
Reuben Wilson,
The Walker Brothers,
Mars,
The Black Dice,
The Smoke,
Tim Buckley,
Visage,
Patti Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Seeds,
The Move,
Faraquet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camouflage,
Neu!,
Quantec,
Scrapy,
Grauzone,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Minnie Riperton,
Barrington Levy,
Tomorrow,
Pulsallama,
The Neon Judgement,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Funky Four + One,
Echospace,
the Swans,
Wally Richardson,
PIL,
The Names,
Essential Logic,
Laurel Aitken,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
K-Klass,
U.S. Maple,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gabor Szabo,
Simply Red,
Scratch Acid,
the Fania All-Stars,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Blake Baxter,
Gerry Rafferty,
Stetsasonic,
Sun Ra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cal Tjader,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.