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 Paraguay and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Captain Beefheart 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 funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
The Sonics,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobby Byrd,
Television Personalities,
Jacob Miller,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Motions,
Shuggie Otis,
The Divine Comedy,
The Durutti Column,
Unrelated Segments,
Ituana,
Johnny Clarke,
Subhumans,
The Leaves,
Organ,
Desert Stars,
MDC,
Lower 48,
The Victims,
Lebanon Hanover,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tres Demented,
the Swans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ice-T,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lindisfarne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Maurizio,
Maleditus Sound,
Cybotron,
John Cale,
Blancmange,
Dual Sessions,
Inner City,
Infiniti,
EPMD,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Thompson Twins,
X-101,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Idris Muhammad,
Pharoah Sanders,
Soft Cell,
Drexciya,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scratch Acid,
Cecil Taylor,
Blake Baxter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Icehouse,
Moebius,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun City Girls,
Rotary Connection,
The Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.