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 Yemen and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Make Up,
Monolake,
Dead Boys,
Los Fastidios,
Pet Shop Boys,
Depeche Mode,
Moby Grape,
The Motions,
Cymande,
The Dirtbombs,
Quantec,
The Fortunes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jeff Lynne,
The Stooges,
Visage,
Robert Görl,
Black Moon,
Crime,
Joy Division,
Rapeman,
Morten Harket,
The Vogues,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lower 48,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pylon,
The Smoke,
Flamin' Groovies,
Simply Red,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Franke,
Beasts of Bourbon,
F. McDonald,
Anakelly,
Second Layer,
The Raincoats,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eve St. Jones,
The Durutti Column,
Shoche,
Excepter,
The Doors,
Don Cherry,
Bauhaus,
The American Breed,
cv313,
U.S. Maple,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fire Engines,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Das Ding,
Delta 5,
Soul II Soul,
Scion,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.