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 Somalia 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Massinfluence to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
June of 44,
Harmonia,
Stiv Bators,
Joensuu 1685,
The Durutti Column,
The New Christs,
Sound Behaviour,
Deepchord,
Tomorrow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Archie Shepp,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gang Green,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
UT,
Rapeman,
The Alarm Clocks,
Black Flag,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Circle Jerks,
Minutemen,
Pole,
Mission of Burma,
The Electric Prunes,
Inner City,
Blancmange,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ken Boothe,
Gang Starr,
The Fugs,
James White and The Blacks,
Juan Atkins,
Pantytec,
The Names,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pussy Galore,
Kerri Chandler,
Todd Rundgren,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vainqueur,
Cluster,
Soft Cell,
Bluetip,
Rod Modell,
X-101,
Eve St. Jones,
Henry Cow,
Marc Almond,
Neil Young,
The Happenings,
The Fuzztones,
The Vogues,
Blossom Toes,
Scion,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.