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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
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 synthesizer 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 Barracudas to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
The Dead C,
Henry Cow,
Yusef Lateef,
The Pop Group,
Model 500,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funky Four + One,
Lakeside,
Eve St. Jones,
Ken Boothe,
OOIOO,
Andrew Hill,
Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Animal Collective,
Reagan Youth,
Arthur Verocai,
Lucky Dragons,
Motorama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Blossom Toes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Man Parrish,
Schoolly D,
Amon Düül II,
Joy Division,
Minnie Riperton,
Sonny Sharrock,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Lydon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wasted Youth,
Sandy B,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Moss Icon,
The Motions,
Black Flag,
The Dirtbombs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Main Source,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hot Snakes,
Darondo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fela Kuti,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Erasure,
Quadrant,
Mo-Dettes,
Bill Wells,
Severed Heads,
Crime,
Faraquet,
the Germs,
The J.B.'s,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.