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 Georgia and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tomorrow to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Can,
Stereo Dub,
Monolake,
Piero Umiliani,
Sam Rivers,
LL Cool J,
EPMD,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Maleditus Sound,
Deakin,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moss Icon,
Brick,
Wasted Youth,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-101,
Organ,
Michelle Simonal,
The Neon Judgement,
Popol Vuh,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Victims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
cv313,
Unwound,
The Skatalites,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Motorama,
Royal Trux,
Crime,
Mr. Review,
Derrick Morgan,
Cluster,
Smog,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ornette Coleman,
Country Teasers,
The New Christs,
Accadde A,
MDC,
Heaven 17,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cybotron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Amon Düül,
Cal Tjader,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Star Department,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marc Almond,
The Barracudas,
Warsaw,
Joe Smooth,
Big Daddy Kane,
Letta Mbulu,
Sugar Minott,
E-Dancer,
Animal Collective,
Minny Pops,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.