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 Guinea-Bissau and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Half Japanese,
The Moleskins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Todd Rundgren,
Minutemen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Simply Red,
The Grass Roots,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Black Sheep,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wally Richardson,
Camberwell Now,
Tears for Fears,
Das Ding,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Niagra,
Shoche,
Davy DMX,
CMW,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sugar Minott,
Kayak,
The Trojans,
Skaos,
Von Mondo,
Bad Manners,
Johnny Clarke,
X-Ray Spex,
Aural Exciters,
The Walker Brothers,
Gong,
Infiniti,
Nirvana,
The Motions,
X-102,
David Bowie,
Adolescents,
Scion,
EPMD,
PIL,
Pantytec,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lower 48,
8 Eyed Spy,
Michelle Simonal,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fluxion,
Chris & Cosey,
Groovy Waters,
Donald Byrd,
Tomorrow,
Livin' Joy,
The Associates,
Grey Daturas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Leonard Cohen,
Essential Logic,
Maurizio,
The Blackbyrds,
Man Parrish,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.