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 Sweden and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba 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 Gichy Dan to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Country Teasers,
The United States of America,
Tom Boy,
Ronan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Althea and Donna,
Amon Düül,
Archie Shepp,
Youth Brigade,
David Bowie,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Barracudas,
Lakeside,
Drexciya,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marc Almond,
The Angels of Light,
Hasil Adkins,
Nirvana,
The Stooges,
Nik Kershaw,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ossler,
Outsiders,
U.S. Maple,
Chris & Cosey,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeff Mills,
The Neon Judgement,
Byron Stingily,
Toni Rubio,
In Retrospect,
The New Christs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Au Pairs,
Japan,
Amazonics,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Porter Ricks,
Bill Wells,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Names,
Bobby Hutcherson,
One Last Wish,
Terrestrial Tones,
Reagan Youth,
Los Fastidios,
The Move,
Slick Rick,
Sonic Youth,
Fela Kuti,
Wings,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Fortunes,
Scan 7,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dennis Brown,
Barrington Levy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.