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 Brunei and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Boredoms to the punk 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
The United States of America,
Tom Boy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Alphaville,
Lightning Bolt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marmalade,
Basic Channel,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Maleditus Sound,
X-102,
The Searchers,
Mandrill,
Can,
Wasted Youth,
Rekid,
Excepter,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dennis Brown,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gories,
The Blues Magoos,
Ken Boothe,
Kaleidoscope,
Erykah Badu,
The Tremeloes,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Wake,
Stereo Dub,
John Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Newcleus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Selecter,
kango's stein massive,
The Black Dice,
Suicide,
Lucky Dragons,
The Martian,
Sixth Finger,
Sam Rivers,
Alison Limerick,
The Knickerbockers,
Goldenarms,
The Mojo Men,
Junior Murvin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Evens,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Kinks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crash Course in Science,
Blossom Toes,
Technova,
the Slits,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yaz,
Jacob Miller,
Young Marble Giants,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.