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 Zimbabwe and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Robert Palmer 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 Public Enemy to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Agitation Free,
Shoche,
Infiniti,
Surgeon,
Dave Gahan,
Todd Rundgren,
Janne Schatter,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
June of 44,
Black Bananas,
Peter and Kerry,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ohio Players,
Glenn Branca,
The Modern Lovers,
The Associates,
Adolescents,
AZ,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pantaleimon,
Archie Shepp,
The Litter,
Rod Modell,
Sällskapet,
Flash Fearless,
Electric Prunes,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kas Product,
Rapeman,
Subhumans,
Kayak,
Los Fastidios,
Minor Threat,
Loose Ends,
David Bowie,
Pagans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Morten Harket,
Eli Mardock,
the Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Radio Birdman,
Camberwell Now,
The New Christs,
Schoolly D,
Sandy B,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Young Rascals,
The Moleskins,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Robert Görl,
T.S.O.L.,
Chris & Cosey,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Moon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.