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 Swaziland and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
Mars,
The Slits,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tom Boy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Chrome,
Lower 48,
China Crisis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Swans,
Marc Almond,
Echospace,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gladiators,
Adolescents,
Sugar Minott,
Ludus,
Schoolly D,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Graham Central Station,
EPMD,
Index,
Stetsasonic,
The Associates,
Nas,
The Beau Brummels,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Easy Going,
Guru Guru,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eve St. Jones,
Circle Jerks,
Kerri Chandler,
Sparks,
Swans,
The Wake,
Rosa Yemen,
Kayak,
Sonny Sharrock,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Last Poets,
Kas Product,
The Stooges,
Faraquet,
Albert Ayler,
The Birthday Party,
Reagan Youth,
Depeche Mode,
Rakim,
Delta 5,
The Kinks,
Scratch Acid,
Duran Duran,
the Germs,
Whodini,
Royal Trux,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Cale,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.