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 Italy and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 CMW to the grime 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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mantronix,
The Doors,
The Monochrome Set,
The Slits,
Peter & Gordon,
The Tremeloes,
Clear Light,
Brass Construction,
Sun City Girls,
Oneida,
Sonic Youth,
The Blues Magoos,
Flipper,
Supertramp,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sparks,
The Human League,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Pop Group,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
PIL,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camberwell Now,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Motions,
the Normal,
The Moleskins,
MDC,
Bob Dylan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bill Wells,
David McCallum,
The Cowsills,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joy Division,
Crispian St. Peters,
Avey Tare,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Piero Umiliani,
Glenn Branca,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
FM Einheit,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blossom Toes,
OOIOO,
The Gladiators,
Surgeon,
Reagan Youth,
Cal Tjader,
Lalann,
Procol Harum,
The Mummies,
Sight & Sound,
Au Pairs,
World's Most,
Cameo,
Franke,
MC5,
The Offenders,
Scion,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.