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 Albania and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 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 Pantytec to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arcadia,
DJ Sneak,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Last Poets,
Kaleidoscope,
Erykah Badu,
Audionom,
Aloha Tigers,
David Bowie,
Index,
The Dead C,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Second Layer,
Darondo,
Deadbeat,
The Fall,
Aural Exciters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kerrie Biddell,
Japan,
Sonic Youth,
Panda Bear,
Shoche,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
T. Rex,
The Move,
10cc,
London Community Gospel Choir,
D'Angelo,
Sight & Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
the Sonics,
The Fugs,
The Golliwogs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Mummies,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chrome,
The Alarm Clocks,
Junior Murvin,
Yusef Lateef,
Pantytec,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mad Mike,
Thompson Twins,
Gang Starr,
kango's stein massive,
The Seeds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Moleskins,
B.T. Express,
Freddie Wadling,
Tears for Fears,
Arthur Verocai,
Gil Scott Heron,
Anthony Braxton,
The Birthday Party,
Kayak,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.