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 Fiji and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Raincoats to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '70s.
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 Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Associates,
Fugazi,
Ten City,
Black Sheep,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Vogues,
Lakeside,
Matthew Bourne,
Arab on Radar,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
MC5,
The Grass Roots,
La Düsseldorf,
Letta Mbulu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skarface,
Davy DMX,
Crash Course in Science,
Mark Hollis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Black Pus,
Main Source,
Chris Corsano,
Suicide,
the Bar-Kays,
Chrome,
The Victims,
Zero Boys,
R.M.O.,
The Barracudas,
Derrick May,
The Misunderstood,
Rufus Thomas,
The Beau Brummels,
Eurythmics,
Outsiders,
Pylon,
the Normal,
Monolake,
Yazoo,
Symarip,
Heaven 17,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Modern Lovers,
Leonard Cohen,
The Human League,
The Pretty Things,
Marc Almond,
The Detroit Cobras,
cv313,
Sam Rivers,
The Skatalites,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Deepchord,
Brothers Johnson,
Anthony Braxton,
Donny Hathaway,
Easy Going,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.