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 Venezuela and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Grandmaster Flash,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Minny Pops,
The Gun Club,
Eurythmics,
Absolute Body Control,
Darondo,
Boredoms,
The Neon Judgement,
Suburban Knight,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Saints,
F. McDonald,
JFA,
Main Source,
Ludus,
Carl Craig,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
Black Moon,
Quando Quango,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ituana,
Bobbi Humphrey,
PIL,
Dark Day,
The Zeros,
Zapp,
Kenny Larkin,
Negative Approach,
Lungfish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Masters at Work,
Roy Ayers,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scientists,
The Vogues,
Lakeside,
Franke,
Kayak,
Don Cherry,
Kool Moe Dee,
Charles Mingus,
Faust,
Pharoah Sanders,
Goldenarms,
The Cramps,
Scion,
Jeff Mills,
Scott Walker,
Sixth Finger,
John Coltrane,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rites of Spring,
Tomorrow,
Sound Behaviour,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Holt,
Excepter,
Gang Starr,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.