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 Korea South and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Kas Product to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Last Poets,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mandrill,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chrome,
Blossom Toes,
Livin' Joy,
Echospace,
Lower 48,
Das Ding,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soul II Soul,
Boredoms,
Brand Nubian,
The Fugs,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nico,
Basic Channel,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
DJ Sneak,
Infiniti,
Vladislav Delay,
Stetsasonic,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Finger,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lyres,
Slick Rick,
Barclay James Harvest,
Arcadia,
kango's stein massive,
Marshall Jefferson,
Slave,
James White and The Blacks,
June Days,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ornette Coleman,
Arab on Radar,
Dorothy Ashby,
Outsiders,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jeff Lynne,
Eric Copeland,
Mantronix,
Lucky Dragons,
Unrelated Segments,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Skriet,
Lou Reed,
Ronan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
David Axelrod,
Dual Sessions,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.