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 Slovenia and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 the Swans. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Wolf Eyes,
Siglo XX,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lou Christie,
Von Mondo,
Arthur Verocai,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Altered Images,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cameo,
Alton Ellis,
The Cowsills,
Pierre Henry,
Letta Mbulu,
The Litter,
Bob Dylan,
Kurtis Blow,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camouflage,
The Kinks,
Neil Young,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bootsy Collins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Motorama,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Deadbeat,
A Certain Ratio,
Underground Resistance,
Supertramp,
Bad Manners,
Boredoms,
Grey Daturas,
The Sonics,
Jawbox,
Ponytail,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Chris Corsano,
Mandrill,
Godley & Creme,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joey Negro,
The Human League,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Duran Duran,
FM Einheit,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cymande,
Basic Channel,
The Raincoats,
Angry Samoans,
Funkadelic,
D'Angelo,
Crime,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.