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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Junior Murvin to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Minny Pops,
Ralphi Rosario,
Buzzcocks,
Icehouse,
Tim Buckley,
Stetsasonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra,
Gong,
Grey Daturas,
Neil Young,
Frankie Knuckles,
Electric Prunes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Swell Maps,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Moleskins,
Marvin Gaye,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cameo,
Gang of Four,
Unwound,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ice-T,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Slits,
Robert Görl,
Yusef Lateef,
Suicide,
Sex Pistols,
Kurtis Blow,
Soft Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eli Mardock,
Main Source,
Erykah Badu,
Wire,
Tommy Roe,
MC5,
Scrapy,
The Fuzztones,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wasted Youth,
David Bowie,
Warren Ellis,
Scratch Acid,
Das Ding,
Susan Cadogan,
Massinfluence,
Shuggie Otis,
F. McDonald,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
8 Eyed Spy,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.