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 Belgium and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar 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 Motorama to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Todd Terry,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Lynne,
Darondo,
Lower 48,
Chrome,
Shuggie Otis,
Vladislav Delay,
This Heat,
Sun Ra,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nico,
Dead Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
8 Eyed Spy,
Danielle Patucci,
Robert Wyatt,
Godley & Creme,
James White and The Blacks,
Bob Dylan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bang On A Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lungfish,
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fat Boys,
Hashim,
Amon Düül,
Outsiders,
Cheater Slicks,
Terry Callier,
B.T. Express,
Flipper,
Yellowson,
Cybotron,
Warren Ellis,
Sound Behaviour,
JFA,
Aural Exciters,
Rakim,
Marc Almond,
Todd Rundgren,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gang of Four,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Slits,
Delta 5,
Guru Guru,
Gil Scott Heron,
Idris Muhammad,
Carl Craig,
Dual Sessions,
Visage,
The Fuzztones,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Neil Young,
Gang Starr,
Janne Schatter,
Scan 7,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.