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 Belize and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Paris.
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 snare 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 Make Up to the dance 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cal Tjader,
Brothers Johnson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ludus,
10cc,
The Mummies,
Gerry Rafferty,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Darondo,
Talk Talk,
Crooked Eye,
Cecil Taylor,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Suicide,
Los Fastidios,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Knickerbockers,
Marvin Gaye,
Schoolly D,
Aswad,
John Holt,
Alton Ellis,
Index,
R.M.O.,
MC5,
Gastr Del Sol,
Magazine,
Judy Mowatt,
The Names,
Television,
Dark Day,
Henry Cow,
Kas Product,
Flipper,
Yusef Lateef,
Essential Logic,
Andrew Hill,
Oblivians,
The Electric Prunes,
Mr. Review,
Crispian St. Peters,
ABC,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Smoke,
The Trojans,
Byron Stingily,
Patti Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Toni Rubio,
Scion,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mantronix,
The Offenders,
Eric Copeland,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.