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 Uganda and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
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 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Pussy Galore,
the Human League,
Thompson Twins,
Iggy Pop,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sound,
Man Parrish,
John Cale,
In Retrospect,
Cluster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Youth Brigade,
Bluetip,
Derrick Morgan,
The Velvet Underground,
One Last Wish,
D'Angelo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Foxx,
Traffic Nightmare,
Loose Ends,
Charles Mingus,
Todd Terry,
The Fortunes,
Junior Murvin,
Porter Ricks,
Ossler,
Minor Threat,
Das Ding,
Glenn Branca,
Sexual Harrassment,
Drexciya,
Surgeon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Letta Mbulu,
The Modern Lovers,
kango's stein massive,
Con Funk Shun,
Nas,
Connie Case,
Soft Cell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Moody Blues,
Severed Heads,
Marmalade,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hasil Adkins,
Wire,
Zero Boys,
Slave,
Terry Callier,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Lydon,
Mantronix,
Black Moon,
Matthew Bourne,
Ten City,
Pantaleimon,
Shoche,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.