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 Chile and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Stetsasonic to the rock 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
F. McDonald,
Tears for Fears,
Black Bananas,
Lucky Dragons,
World's Most,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Matthew Halsall,
James White and The Blacks,
Organ,
Nico,
The Misunderstood,
Hot Snakes,
Skaos,
Eden Ahbez,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Flag,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jeff Lynne,
Amon Düül II,
Tres Demented,
Gang Green,
The New Christs,
The Electric Prunes,
AZ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Techniques,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sex Pistols,
Symarip,
Minutemen,
Sixth Finger,
Tom Boy,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Real Kids,
Underground Resistance,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sonics,
Fear,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Danielle Patucci,
Theoretical Girls,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
EPMD,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Germs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nick Fraelich,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dead C,
The Buckinghams,
Dead Boys,
Interpol,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Hardrive,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.