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 Argentina and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lyres to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Public Enemy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Joe Finger,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Rapeman,
Albert Ayler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skaos,
Vladislav Delay,
Sugar Minott,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chris Corsano,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deepchord,
Underground Resistance,
Yellowson,
Rotary Connection,
The Sonics,
Moebius,
Sun Ra,
Accadde A,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
ABC,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
X-101,
Mary Jane Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Colin Newman,
Tom Boy,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Donald Byrd,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Saints,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tommy Roe,
Ten City,
Eli Mardock,
The Real Kids,
Public Image Ltd.,
Siglo XX,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Severed Heads,
Scratch Acid,
Josef K,
Youth Brigade,
John Foxx,
Crime,
Ossler,
June of 44,
The Walker Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television Personalities,
The Names,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wire,
Minor Threat,
Anthony Braxton,
Monolake,
Andrew Hill,
Sandy B,
The Gap Band,
Stereo Dub,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.