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 Bahrain and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
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 Robert Palmer 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Oneida,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Shoche,
Max Romeo,
Barbara Tucker,
Circle Jerks,
Marvin Gaye,
Hot Snakes,
kango's stein massive,
The Mummies,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Duran Duran,
Underground Resistance,
The Grass Roots,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter & Gordon,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare,
Rites of Spring,
The Electric Prunes,
Agitation Free,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gun Club,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Al Stewart,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
OOIOO,
B.T. Express,
The Cramps,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hashim,
Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
The Raincoats,
Ludus,
Scratch Acid,
Popol Vuh,
Lee Hazlewood,
Main Source,
Judy Mowatt,
Make Up,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Birthday Party,
The Count Five,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Quantec,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Procol Harum,
Marcia Griffiths,
Boredoms,
Bill Wells,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Nils Olav,
Organ,
Yaz,
CMW,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.