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 Ethiopia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 Al Stewart to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Moby Grape,
the Germs,
The Tremeloes,
Quantec,
Gang Gang Dance,
Surgeon,
Chrome,
Morten Harket,
Skarface,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Pretty Things,
Nirvana,
Royal Trux,
DJ Style,
Iggy Pop,
Circle Jerks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Arab on Radar,
Harmonia,
Kenny Larkin,
Can,
David McCallum,
The Cowsills,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Beau Brummels,
Rotary Connection,
Frankie Knuckles,
The New Christs,
Nico,
Mad Mike,
One Last Wish,
The Evens,
Warren Ellis,
Black Flag,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Althea and Donna,
The Gladiators,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
ABBA,
Lyres,
The Leaves,
Half Japanese,
Sixth Finger,
The Fortunes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barclay James Harvest,
Isaac Hayes,
The Grass Roots,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Don Cherry,
June Days,
Subhumans,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Sonics,
Cymande,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The J.B.'s,
Grauzone,
Depeche Mode,
The Cramps,
The Invisible,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.