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 Angola and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Shuggie Otis to the crunk 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marc Almond,
Sight & Sound,
A Certain Ratio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Curtis Mayfield,
Minutemen,
Reagan Youth,
Rakim,
The J.B.'s,
The Dirtbombs,
Vainqueur,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Fortunes,
Niagra,
DJ Sneak,
The Beau Brummels,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nik Kershaw,
Cameo,
Lyres,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Aloha Tigers,
Tears for Fears,
UT,
Amon Düül,
Harry Pussy,
Ultra Naté,
Alphaville,
H. Thieme,
Bobby Sherman,
Bauhaus,
DJ Style,
the Human League,
Goldenarms,
Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Monochrome Set,
Maurizio,
Los Fastidios,
F. McDonald,
Ponytail,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Hood,
Wally Richardson,
Brothers Johnson,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultravox,
Black Bananas,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pulsallama,
Matthew Bourne,
Warren Ellis,
The Young Rascals,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.