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 Mali and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes 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 Barracudas to the grunge 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minor Threat,
Hasil Adkins,
Essential Logic,
Average White Band,
Blake Baxter,
The Cowsills,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bill Wells,
Country Teasers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Remains,
The Gap Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Whodini,
Gang of Four,
Suburban Knight,
Delta 5,
David Axelrod,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Durutti Column,
OOIOO,
D'Angelo,
Half Japanese,
Jacques Brel,
Technova,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Howard Jones,
Mary Jane Girls,
Crash Course in Science,
The Mojo Men,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pulsallama,
Aloha Tigers,
R.M.O.,
Moebius,
Mark Hollis,
Idris Muhammad,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Joyce Sims,
Mo-Dettes,
The Real Kids,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wally Richardson,
Archie Shepp,
The Red Krayola,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Toni Rubio,
Drive Like Jehu,
Audionom,
Avey Tare,
The Last Poets,
Black Moon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Modern Lovers,
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.