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 Honduras and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
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 harpsichord 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 Prince Buster 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Public Enemy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Letta Mbulu,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joey Negro,
DJ Sneak,
The Blues Magoos,
Nick Fraelich,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rakim,
The Smoke,
Von Mondo,
Metal Thangz,
Little Man,
Underground Resistance,
Iggy Pop,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Blackbyrds,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Happenings,
Faust,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Erykah Badu,
Model 500,
The Real Kids,
Bill Wells,
Robert Wyatt,
Royal Trux,
Cameo,
Silicon Teens,
Crooked Eye,
Blancmange,
Trumans Water,
Organ,
Black Bananas,
In Retrospect,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camouflage,
Slave,
The Fortunes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lucky Dragons,
Idris Muhammad,
Scott Walker,
Newcleus,
Black Sheep,
Janne Schatter,
Scrapy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amon Düül II,
Public Image Ltd.,
Average White Band,
Q65,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pulsallama,
The Mojo Men,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pussy Galore,
Laurel Aitken,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.