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 United States and from New York.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Shuggie Otis 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
cv313,
Sam Rivers,
Tubeway Army,
Desert Stars,
Jandek,
The Divine Comedy,
The Searchers,
Bluetip,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fluxion,
Ice-T,
Gong,
The Mummies,
Derrick Morgan,
Ronnie Foster,
Second Layer,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Invisible,
Technova,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Matthew Halsall,
H. Thieme,
Marc Almond,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül II,
Hardrive,
Excepter,
Bauhaus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Patti Smith,
Accadde A,
Procol Harum,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang Starr,
The Victims,
Cheater Slicks,
Lucky Dragons,
Fad Gadget,
Tommy Roe,
Whodini,
Sonic Youth,
David Axelrod,
Eve St. Jones,
Fatback Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Drexciya,
The Standells,
Kenny Larkin,
the Slits,
Peter and Kerry,
Marcia Griffiths,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Y Pants,
Young Marble Giants,
the Sonics,
The Fortunes,
Main Source,
Popol Vuh,
Godley & Creme,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.