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 Portugal and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet 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 disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
The Toasters,
Urselle,
Unwound,
Franke,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tim Buckley,
Swans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Music Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gastr Del Sol,
JFA,
Deepchord,
Hoover,
The Smiths,
Michelle Simonal,
Tears for Fears,
Audionom,
The Buckinghams,
The Slits,
Schoolly D,
Sun Ra,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Erasure,
The Blues Magoos,
Gil Scott Heron,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Litter,
Lou Christie,
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fall,
Colin Newman,
Easy Going,
Ronnie Foster,
Model 500,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gun Club,
Sixth Finger,
The Techniques,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Cale,
Little Man,
Liliput,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Inner City,
June of 44,
Eddi Front,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.