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 Norway and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Wings to the punk 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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Yaz,
Rosa Yemen,
Tom Boy,
Scion,
Davy DMX,
Robert Görl,
Blancmange,
K-Klass,
Chris & Cosey,
Janne Schatter,
Yellowson,
The Cramps,
The Moleskins,
Gang Starr,
Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hardrive,
Barbara Tucker,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hasil Adkins,
New York Dolls,
Scientists,
Donny Hathaway,
Grauzone,
The Leaves,
Bill Near,
Soft Machine,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
June of 44,
Cal Tjader,
Quadrant,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hashim,
8 Eyed Spy,
Skriet,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gichy Dan,
Urselle,
Kayak,
The Litter,
Aloha Tigers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Christie,
Tim Buckley,
Harry Pussy,
The Skatalites,
Marc Almond,
Unrelated Segments,
Spandau Ballet,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rotary Connection,
Infiniti,
Rapeman,
Toni Rubio,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.