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 Sudan and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 New Christs to the grunge 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Soft Machine,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bluetip,
Technova,
The Black Dice,
Kerrie Biddell,
Erykah Badu,
The Index,
Urselle,
Television Personalities,
Echospace,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roger Hodgson,
Animal Collective,
Wire,
Roxy Music,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Drive Like Jehu,
La Düsseldorf,
Dual Sessions,
John Holt,
The Dave Clark Five,
Shuggie Otis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Avey Tare,
Bush Tetras,
Pagans,
The Offenders,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Delta 5,
Michelle Simonal,
Barbara Tucker,
Electric Prunes,
Pantaleimon,
Jawbox,
Cluster,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Skatalites,
Dave Gahan,
Black Moon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Skaos,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dawn Penn,
Aswad,
Sixth Finger,
The Busters,
Desert Stars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Al Stewart,
The New Christs,
Mo-Dettes,
Rakim,
Gabor Szabo,
Terrestrial Tones,
Buzzcocks,
Colin Newman,
Vladislav Delay,
Kenny Larkin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.