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 Uruguay and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Glenn Branca to the rap 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scan 7,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lalann,
Yusef Lateef,
Reagan Youth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Young Rascals,
Pulsallama,
Moebius,
Lindisfarne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Depeche Mode,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Can,
Big Daddy Kane,
Monolake,
Eric Copeland,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crime,
Gang of Four,
Lyres,
Suicide,
Roger Hodgson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerri Chandler,
Warsaw,
Terrestrial Tones,
Anthony Braxton,
Newcleus,
Duran Duran,
Black Flag,
Dawn Penn,
Erykah Badu,
Country Teasers,
Eurythmics,
The Seeds,
Silicon Teens,
Patti Smith,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Saccharine Trust,
KRS-One,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fall,
The Barracudas,
Smog,
Crispy Ambulance,
Monks,
Peter & Gordon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Section 25,
Audionom,
The Techniques,
The Mojo Men,
Dorothy Ashby,
Negative Approach,
Flipper,
The Associates,
Quantec,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.