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 Azerbaijan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Make Up to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Surgeon,
Radiohead,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
JFA,
Kool Moe Dee,
Delta 5,
Alton Ellis,
Eric B and Rakim,
Interpol,
Peter and Kerry,
Mad Mike,
the Bar-Kays,
Half Japanese,
The Martian,
The American Breed,
Nick Fraelich,
Trumans Water,
Quantec,
Inner City,
Agent Orange,
Rotary Connection,
The J.B.'s,
Chris & Cosey,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pulsallama,
Rakim,
John Foxx,
Icehouse,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Todd Terry,
Rites of Spring,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sister Nancy,
Zapp,
Dawn Penn,
Tim Buckley,
The United States of America,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
Stiv Bators,
Talk Talk,
The Trojans,
Sugar Minott,
Eden Ahbez,
Harry Pussy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Urselle,
Scrapy,
The Barracudas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Warren Ellis,
Pantytec,
Lindisfarne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
In Retrospect,
the Human League,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.