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 Denmark and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bauhaus to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s 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 Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Donny Hathaway,
Johnny Clarke,
Idris Muhammad,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Pretty Things,
Alphaville,
Sex Pistols,
Make Up,
Joy Division,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roger Hodgson,
Echospace,
Grey Daturas,
Danielle Patucci,
The Standells,
Rotary Connection,
John Holt,
Lungfish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camouflage,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Absolute Body Control,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cluster,
Isaac Hayes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pierre Henry,
The Gun Club,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerri Chandler,
Marc Almond,
Boz Scaggs,
Eurythmics,
Main Source,
Gang Starr,
Juan Atkins,
New Order,
DNA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Chris Corsano,
Monolake,
Barrington Levy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Raincoats,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pulsallama,
Mantronix,
David Axelrod,
Sonic Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blossom Toes,
Fad Gadget,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fall,
The Buckinghams,
The Gories,
The Fire Engines,
Yusef Lateef,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.