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 Antigua and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Skaos to the rock 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Donald Byrd,
Marshall Jefferson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nirvana,
John Holt,
Joe Finger,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
X-Ray Spex,
Ossler,
Ohio Players,
The Cure,
Gil Scott Heron,
New Order,
Peter and Kerry,
Clear Light,
Jerry's Kids,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Johnny Clarke,
Soul Sonic Force,
Oneida,
Maurizio,
The Moody Blues,
Unwound,
Y Pants,
Livin' Joy,
Franke,
Second Layer,
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ken Boothe,
Dual Sessions,
Marmalade,
EPMD,
The Toasters,
The American Breed,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ten City,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Reed,
Pierre Henry,
Connie Case,
Sandy B,
The Velvet Underground,
The Selecter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Skriet,
Neu!,
The Litter,
Model 500,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
The Evens,
Sugar Minott,
Pagans,
Junior Murvin,
ABC,
Crash Course in Science,
Hoover,
Organ,
Frankie Knuckles,
Panda Bear,
The Mummies,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.