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 Moldova and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Toni Rubio to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Michelle Simonal,
Chris & Cosey,
Blake Baxter,
Audionom,
The Human League,
Bauhaus,
UT,
The New Christs,
AZ,
Hardrive,
Cheater Slicks,
Echospace,
Fatback Band,
Excepter,
Jeff Mills,
Alton Ellis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gories,
Jacob Miller,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sandy B,
The Dave Clark Five,
Swans,
Pantytec,
Smog,
Joensuu 1685,
Aaron Thompson,
Aural Exciters,
New York Dolls,
The Music Machine,
Neu!,
Japan,
Gong,
Bad Manners,
Chrome,
Kaleidoscope,
Silicon Teens,
Symarip,
Tom Boy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Quadrant,
The Smiths,
Heaven 17,
Lucky Dragons,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Circle Jerks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ohio Players,
The Move,
Arcadia,
EPMD,
Crash Course in Science,
Sällskapet,
Patti Smith,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Womack,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tres Demented,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.