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 Guyana and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 The Doobie Brothers to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
X-102,
Rotary Connection,
Jawbox,
Tim Buckley,
Delon & Dalcan,
Aswad,
Bronski Beat,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gichy Dan,
Electric Prunes,
The Angels of Light,
The Durutti Column,
Jandek,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Amazonics,
Robert Görl,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Depeche Mode,
Franke,
The Stooges,
B.T. Express,
Make Up,
LL Cool J,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Toni Rubio,
Tubeway Army,
Leonard Cohen,
Chris & Cosey,
the Normal,
Roxette,
Godley & Creme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Das Ding,
Bad Manners,
Maurizio,
Bobby Sherman,
Archie Shepp,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Golliwogs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sight & Sound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mary Jane Girls,
Slave,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dennis Brown,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Graham Central Station,
Monks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Connie Case,
Marmalade,
Duran Duran,
Reuben Wilson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sam Rivers,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Evens,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.