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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 theremin 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 The Birthday Party 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Sight & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Sällskapet,
Rotary Connection,
Drexciya,
Arthur Verocai,
Gang Starr,
The Gun Club,
Q and Not U,
The Electric Prunes,
Radio Birdman,
Ralphi Rosario,
Suburban Knight,
Y Pants,
Aswad,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terrestrial Tones,
Clear Light,
Neu!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Gerry Rafferty,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Funky Four + One,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hot Snakes,
JFA,
Absolute Body Control,
Stetsasonic,
Echospace,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Shoche,
Public Image Ltd.,
D'Angelo,
The Toasters,
Maleditus Sound,
Bluetip,
Bill Wells,
Grauzone,
Scott Walker,
Eli Mardock,
Lyres,
The Leaves,
Charles Mingus,
Patti Smith,
a-ha,
The Busters,
Khruangbin,
The Motions,
Connie Case,
Adolescents,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Standells,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Skaos,
The Vogues,
Ronnie Foster,
The Moody Blues,
Eric Dolphy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.