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 Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Selecter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
Rotary Connection,
Alison Limerick,
The Saints,
Brand Nubian,
Skaos,
The Standells,
The Moleskins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Monolake,
Urselle,
Scratch Acid,
Television Personalities,
Malaria!,
Graham Central Station,
Gabor Szabo,
Chrome,
Soul II Soul,
Accadde A,
Rufus Thomas,
Yazoo,
Gang of Four,
kango's stein massive,
Reagan Youth,
Magma,
Hashim,
Bill Wells,
Kerri Chandler,
The Cramps,
Khruangbin,
Donny Hathaway,
Mary Jane Girls,
Duran Duran,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arthur Verocai,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Birthday Party,
Tom Boy,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mummies,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Newcleus,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Flag,
Mantronix,
Jesper Dahlback,
Niagra,
Lou Christie,
The Associates,
Jeff Mills,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nas,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric B and Rakim,
Yusef Lateef,
T.S.O.L.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.