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 Marshall Islands and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Marine Girls to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Hood,
Stiv Bators,
Faraquet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Intrusion,
Rod Modell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Human League,
The Techniques,
The American Breed,
Jesper Dahlback,
MDC,
A Certain Ratio,
The Angels of Light,
Marcia Griffiths,
Moebius,
The New Christs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Pop Group,
Brass Construction,
The Move,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Monochrome Set,
Suburban Knight,
Josef K,
Quadrant,
Angry Samoans,
Ossler,
Tears for Fears,
a-ha,
Freddie Wadling,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Slackers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Franke,
Jacob Miller,
Danielle Patucci,
Flash Fearless,
Dorothy Ashby,
OOIOO,
Television Personalities,
Ludus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Barrington Levy,
The Wake,
Bobby Byrd,
B.T. Express,
Essential Logic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Max Romeo,
Babytalk,
Eddi Front,
Sexual Harrassment,
Monks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.