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 Greece and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Maurizio to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Lindisfarne,
Dave Gahan,
Au Pairs,
The Selecter,
Barry Ungar,
Second Layer,
Gang Gang Dance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marvin Gaye,
Dark Day,
Skriet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Stiv Bators,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun City Girls,
The Human League,
Albert Ayler,
Popol Vuh,
KRS-One,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
10cc,
Livin' Joy,
Cymande,
DNA,
Pantaleimon,
Ultravox,
Donald Byrd,
The Gun Club,
Tim Buckley,
Swans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Janne Schatter,
Morten Harket,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Ten City,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Detroit Cobras,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Leaves,
MC5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Scott Walker,
Bob Dylan,
OOIOO,
Flipper,
Judy Mowatt,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lalo Schifrin,
D'Angelo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Television,
Drexciya,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scientists,
Groovy Waters,
Harpers Bizarre,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.