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 Korea South and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ornette Coleman to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
OOIOO,
Excepter,
Roy Ayers,
The Golliwogs,
Scratch Acid,
Rotary Connection,
David McCallum,
Theoretical Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joe Smooth,
Pierre Henry,
Joey Negro,
Arcadia,
Gang Starr,
Audionom,
Babytalk,
The Toasters,
Erykah Badu,
Drexciya,
The Count Five,
PIL,
Roxy Music,
cv313,
This Heat,
The Raincoats,
Bad Manners,
Outsiders,
Grey Daturas,
Half Japanese,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Magazine,
Nick Fraelich,
John Holt,
Pagans,
The Black Dice,
Eric Copeland,
Youth Brigade,
Marc Almond,
Ten City,
The Mummies,
Subhumans,
Sällskapet,
ABBA,
Kaleidoscope,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Motorama,
Joensuu 1685,
Lower 48,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amazonics,
Ossler,
Don Cherry,
Isaac Hayes,
X-Ray Spex,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bronski Beat,
Scientists,
the Swans,
Matthew Bourne,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.