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 Moldova and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Au Pairs to the techno 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Camberwell Now,
Schoolly D,
Peter & Gordon,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Boz Scaggs,
Quantec,
Swans,
Wasted Youth,
Matthew Bourne,
Dual Sessions,
Donny Hathaway,
Deakin,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Deepchord,
Can,
Whodini,
Ralphi Rosario,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sex Pistols,
Sixth Finger,
Minor Threat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Derrick Morgan,
China Crisis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Funkadelic,
Patti Smith,
Crime,
Jerry's Kids,
Laurel Aitken,
Kurtis Blow,
Kas Product,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Man Parrish,
The Birthday Party,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Subhumans,
Hasil Adkins,
the Sonics,
Japan,
Mandrill,
The Blackbyrds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Warren Ellis,
the Germs,
La Düsseldorf,
Crooked Eye,
Tears for Fears,
The Standells,
Pierre Henry,
Lungfish,
Roxette,
Mary Jane Girls,
Zapp,
Lindisfarne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Underground Resistance,
Ituana,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.