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 Denmark and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Todd Rundgren to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Skarface,
The Pop Group,
The Gun Club,
Faraquet,
Slick Rick,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
Y Pants,
DNA,
The Knickerbockers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Public Enemy,
The Neon Judgement,
Graham Central Station,
Bang On A Can,
Robert Wyatt,
Minor Threat,
Godley & Creme,
EPMD,
A Flock of Seagulls,
June Days,
AZ,
This Heat,
Nas,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jacob Miller,
Loose Ends,
Porter Ricks,
Metal Thangz,
Simply Red,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Todd Rundgren,
Bootsy Collins,
Dual Sessions,
Maleditus Sound,
Deepchord,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pierre Henry,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
Al Stewart,
Eric Copeland,
Crash Course in Science,
Silicon Teens,
Tim Buckley,
Black Sheep,
Bob Dylan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Toni Rubio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Albert Ayler,
Joyce Sims,
Lungfish,
Jacques Brel,
Sight & Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sound,
The Fuzztones,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.