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 Jamaica and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Moebius to the crunk 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Basic Channel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lalann,
The Stooges,
Steve Hackett,
Inner City,
Max Romeo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Residents,
Rufus Thomas,
The Move,
Tommy Roe,
Alison Limerick,
Crime,
Yaz,
Alphaville,
DJ Style,
Au Pairs,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bush Tetras,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joy Division,
Sun City Girls,
DNA,
Flipper,
Robert Hood,
Roxette,
Alice Coltrane,
Janne Schatter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hardrive,
Bauhaus,
Wings,
Chris & Cosey,
Sixth Finger,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Slackers,
Zero Boys,
Altered Images,
Ultra Naté,
The Happenings,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gastr Del Sol,
UT,
The Saints,
Tropical Tobacco,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.