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 Bhutan 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Tubeway Army to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Average White Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Icehouse,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lungfish,
Nick Fraelich,
Dennis Brown,
Schoolly D,
The Blackbyrds,
The Buckinghams,
Janne Schatter,
Hashim,
The Grass Roots,
The Techniques,
Can,
Soulsonic Force,
Cheater Slicks,
Main Source,
Heaven 17,
Spoonie Gee,
The Beau Brummels,
The Monochrome Set,
Marcia Griffiths,
MC5,
New Order,
T.S.O.L.,
Boz Scaggs,
Sandy B,
Crash Course in Science,
Thompson Twins,
Rod Modell,
Joyce Sims,
Audionom,
Blossom Toes,
Duran Duran,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gong,
Dave Gahan,
These Immortal Souls,
Patti Smith,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Cale,
The Last Poets,
The Trojans,
Oneida,
Glambeats Corp.,
Organ,
Morten Harket,
The Standells,
China Crisis,
Supertramp,
Inner City,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Babytalk,
Echospace,
Alice Coltrane,
Make Up,
The Velvet Underground,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.