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 Cuba and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Traffic Nightmare to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare 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 theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
John Foxx,
Altered Images,
John Holt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Todd Terry,
The Selecter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nas,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Curtis Mayfield,
A Certain Ratio,
Ponytail,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fatback Band,
K-Klass,
Siglo XX,
Neu!,
The Vogues,
Desert Stars,
ABC,
Arcadia,
Mr. Review,
The Litter,
Zero Boys,
The Zeros,
Reuben Wilson,
Harry Pussy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mad Mike,
Malaria!,
Marvin Gaye,
Ronnie Foster,
Chris Corsano,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barbara Tucker,
Soul II Soul,
The Slits,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Gladiators,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Goldenarms,
The Pop Group,
Mary Jane Girls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fela Kuti,
Lower 48,
Laurel Aitken,
Yusef Lateef,
Minutemen,
Khruangbin,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Maurizio,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Howard Jones,
Make Up,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.