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 Brunei and from London.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Shoche to the disco 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lower 48,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Saints,
Altered Images,
the Association,
Joyce Sims,
The Skatalites,
The Associates,
Lakeside,
Electric Prunes,
Blancmange,
Nico,
Moebius,
The Divine Comedy,
The Neon Judgement,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scrapy,
Echospace,
Sun City Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Make Up,
Fear,
The Gun Club,
Delta 5,
Smog,
Easy Going,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Germs,
Gastr Del Sol,
The United States of America,
Jawbox,
The Stooges,
Scion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Zero Boys,
The Selecter,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soul Sonic Force,
David McCallum,
Crispy Ambulance,
Amon Düül,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bauhaus,
H. Thieme,
the Fania All-Stars,
Hot Snakes,
Eddi Front,
Inner City,
Lightning Bolt,
U.S. Maple,
Robert Wyatt,
MC5,
Marvin Gaye,
Althea and Donna,
The Music Machine,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.