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 Tonga and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 theremin 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 The Gories to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
John Coltrane,
Neil Young,
The New Christs,
Chris & Cosey,
Barclay James Harvest,
Altered Images,
New Age Steppers,
Juan Atkins,
The Associates,
Deakin,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Radiohead,
Slave,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bang On A Can,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dual Sessions,
Model 500,
Metal Thangz,
ABBA,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jeff Mills,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Arcadia,
Darondo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Easy Going,
Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Visage,
Rufus Thomas,
Amazonics,
The Five Americans,
Dave Gahan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Organ,
The Monochrome Set,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bill Wells,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skaos,
Eric B and Rakim,
Anakelly,
Negative Approach,
Cheater Slicks,
Arthur Verocai,
Derrick May,
Mission of Burma,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eden Ahbez,
Hasil Adkins,
MDC,
The Neon Judgement,
Intrusion,
Nik Kershaw,
Scientists,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.