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 Latvia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Michael McDonald 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 The Smoke to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Gil Scott Heron,
Clear Light,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rotary Connection,
Black Bananas,
The Red Krayola,
JFA,
Black Sheep,
Supertramp,
Idris Muhammad,
Kurtis Blow,
Warren Ellis,
Swans,
Mantronix,
Eric Dolphy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soulsonic Force,
Pere Ubu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Symarip,
Ossler,
The Young Rascals,
Ronan,
the Swans,
The Beau Brummels,
Gang Gang Dance,
Crime,
Wally Richardson,
Jandek,
the Slits,
The Fortunes,
New Order,
FM Einheit,
These Immortal Souls,
Iggy Pop,
Sonny Sharrock,
Man Parrish,
Von Mondo,
Johnny Clarke,
Television,
U.S. Maple,
Jerry Gold Smith,
PIL,
The Five Americans,
The Real Kids,
Sound Behaviour,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
La Düsseldorf,
John Foxx,
Sarah Menescal,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siglo XX,
Suburban Knight,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.