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 Jordan and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the disco 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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Charles Mingus,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Derrick Morgan,
Suburban Knight,
Stereo Dub,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Animal Collective,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Raincoats,
Toni Rubio,
Swell Maps,
The Standells,
ABBA,
Roy Ayers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sight & Sound,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cowsills,
Fad Gadget,
The Moody Blues,
Quantec,
Sam Rivers,
Boredoms,
Eyeless In Gaza,
DNA,
The Leaves,
The Saints,
Marine Girls,
The Red Krayola,
Absolute Body Control,
Aswad,
Country Teasers,
Susan Cadogan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vladislav Delay,
Soul II Soul,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Second Layer,
Juan Atkins,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Hot Snakes,
Moss Icon,
Altered Images,
The Barracudas,
R.M.O.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sugar Minott,
The Fugs,
Ultravox,
Essential Logic,
The Techniques,
Scrapy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.