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 Austria and from New York.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Panda Bear to the rap 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Yusef Lateef,
ABC,
Sandy B,
Barry Ungar,
Talk Talk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Barracudas,
Circle Jerks,
Marvin Gaye,
Gichy Dan,
Livin' Joy,
Roxette,
Erasure,
Excepter,
Goldenarms,
Amon Düül,
The Gun Club,
Marc Almond,
Warsaw,
Barrington Levy,
Archie Shepp,
Rotary Connection,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Cure,
One Last Wish,
the Swans,
Morten Harket,
Lightning Bolt,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fuzztones,
Pantaleimon,
Marmalade,
Sun Ra,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Bananas,
James White and The Blacks,
Babytalk,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Womack,
Saccharine Trust,
The Trojans,
Althea and Donna,
Yellowson,
JFA,
Ultravox,
Chris & Cosey,
Cecil Taylor,
Kurtis Blow,
Thompson Twins,
The Martian,
Throbbing Gristle,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joyce Sims,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Toni Rubio,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Isaac Hayes,
Minny Pops,
Funkadelic,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.