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 Mongolia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
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 synthesizer 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 The Grass Roots to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Ice-T,
Darondo,
Clear Light,
Kurtis Blow,
Bronski Beat,
The Cramps,
Joyce Sims,
The Fortunes,
Maleditus Sound,
David Bowie,
Judy Mowatt,
David McCallum,
The Grass Roots,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kenny Larkin,
Echospace,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lyres,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Spoonie Gee,
Nik Kershaw,
Half Japanese,
Hashim,
the Swans,
Flash Fearless,
Aural Exciters,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Doors,
The Names,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visage,
Sixth Finger,
Susan Cadogan,
Cecil Taylor,
The Slackers,
Lightning Bolt,
David Axelrod,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soft Cell,
Y Pants,
Johnny Clarke,
The Vogues,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Green,
Stiv Bators,
Icehouse,
Ponytail,
Ken Boothe,
Quando Quango,
Morten Harket,
Slave,
Barry Ungar,
10cc,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brass Construction,
Panda Bear,
The Divine Comedy,
The Associates,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wally Richardson,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.