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 Kuwait and from Mexico City.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Skaos to the rap 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Ronan,
Sonic Youth,
the Human League,
Joyce Sims,
Anakelly,
Von Mondo,
The Cramps,
The Saints,
Gang Starr,
Deadbeat,
Nico,
Altered Images,
Don Cherry,
Soul II Soul,
Kurtis Blow,
Pagans,
Rod Modell,
Icehouse,
Mission of Burma,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eric Copeland,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aloha Tigers,
Cybotron,
The Litter,
The Kinks,
The Walker Brothers,
Joey Negro,
The Star Department,
K-Klass,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Mummies,
The Fugs,
Wasted Youth,
Black Bananas,
Zapp,
The Searchers,
Darondo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Tres Demented,
Mars,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Moody Blues,
Au Pairs,
Second Layer,
Amon Düül,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Dual Sessions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gong,
Amon Düül II,
Freddie Wadling,
Gang of Four,
Roxette,
Eric B and Rakim,
Moebius,
The Sound,
Fugazi,
Sarah Menescal,
Essential Logic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.