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 Dominica and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Niagra to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Loose Ends,
Bang On A Can,
Davy DMX,
B.T. Express,
Essential Logic,
Donald Byrd,
Barbara Tucker,
Jandek,
Lakeside,
Pylon,
The Grass Roots,
Cluster,
Cheater Slicks,
The Motions,
48th St. Collective,
Piero Umiliani,
Matthew Bourne,
Section 25,
Parry Music,
Pet Shop Boys,
Intrusion,
Rod Modell,
Minutemen,
Junior Murvin,
David McCallum,
Nico,
Bad Manners,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aaron Thompson,
Laurel Aitken,
Supertramp,
Derrick Morgan,
The Real Kids,
Gil Scott Heron,
Organ,
Lalann,
Cameo,
Iggy Pop,
Alphaville,
Gong,
DJ Sneak,
Robert Hood,
Marine Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Au Pairs,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Victims,
Flash Fearless,
Index,
Magazine,
The Golliwogs,
Charles Mingus,
KRS-One,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Metal Thangz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pussy Galore,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.