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 Germany and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the jazz 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dual Sessions,
The Real Kids,
Joey Negro,
Lyres,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eli Mardock,
Black Sheep,
Nico,
Sonic Youth,
Rod Modell,
The Index,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sound,
Matthew Bourne,
ABC,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Velvet Underground,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Lydon,
The Victims,
The United States of America,
Kaleidoscope,
Lucky Dragons,
Trumans Water,
Dave Gahan,
Rekid,
Chris & Cosey,
Nas,
The Flesh Eaters,
Tommy Roe,
Intrusion,
Gang Green,
Maleditus Sound,
Fugazi,
Albert Ayler,
Kurtis Blow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brand Nubian,
F. McDonald,
FM Einheit,
Faust,
Darondo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Saints,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
10cc,
Stetsasonic,
Cymande,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Altered Images,
ABBA,
Hasil Adkins,
The Seeds,
Robert Wyatt,
Youth Brigade,
Man Parrish,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.