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 Costa Rica and from Sao Paulo.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Robert Hood to the electroclash 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Ken Boothe,
B.T. Express,
Lucky Dragons,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hasil Adkins,
Bauhaus,
Soft Cell,
John Foxx,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gories,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Mills,
The Walker Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Toasters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yaz,
Sparks,
T. Rex,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Grauzone,
Bang On A Can,
Black Bananas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eric Dolphy,
Underground Resistance,
a-ha,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker,
Barrington Levy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Arcadia,
K-Klass,
Bill Wells,
The Red Krayola,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Supertramp,
Spoonie Gee,
Wings,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
One Last Wish,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Danielle Patucci,
Liliput,
Gastr Del Sol,
Patti Smith,
Los Fastidios,
Archie Shepp,
the Slits,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Swell Maps,
The J.B.'s,
Alton Ellis,
Parry Music,
Pantaleimon,
The Last Poets,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.