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 Brazil and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 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 Yaz to the techno 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Television Personalities,
Delon & Dalcan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Robert Görl,
Goldenarms,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Absolute Body Control,
E-Dancer,
the Swans,
Sound Behaviour,
Reagan Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Porter Ricks,
The Smiths,
Kurtis Blow,
Sixth Finger,
Supertramp,
Ossler,
Michelle Simonal,
CMW,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Brothers Johnson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Toni Rubio,
Excepter,
Pulsallama,
OOIOO,
Clear Light,
The Modern Lovers,
The Martian,
Bronski Beat,
Eddi Front,
New York Dolls,
Radiohead,
Dorothy Ashby,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Crime,
Von Mondo,
L. Decosne,
Black Bananas,
The Tremeloes,
Flash Fearless,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dual Sessions,
Archie Shepp,
Scion,
Black Flag,
Fugazi,
cv313,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Circle Jerks,
John Lydon,
Metal Thangz,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.