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 Niger and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 Slits to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
The Happenings,
Rod Modell,
Morten Harket,
Altered Images,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Dead C,
Banda Bassotti,
Index,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gap Band,
Joy Division,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Supertramp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Modern Lovers,
PIL,
The Seeds,
Los Fastidios,
Funky Four + One,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fugs,
Graham Central Station,
Negative Approach,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dave Gahan,
cv313,
Flash Fearless,
X-102,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grauzone,
the Human League,
Juan Atkins,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minor Threat,
The Leaves,
The Electric Prunes,
Roxette,
Henry Cow,
Avey Tare,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Saccharine Trust,
Arthur Verocai,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quadrant,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jimmy McGriff,
Matthew Bourne,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Blackbyrds,
Cheater Slicks,
Glenn Branca,
Excepter,
Big Daddy Kane,
Intrusion,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.