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 Manchester.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Franke to the grunge 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Scientists,
Motorama,
Pet Shop Boys,
Animal Collective,
Joey Negro,
Reuben Wilson,
Vainqueur,
Todd Terry,
the Soft Cell,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dawn Penn,
Wally Richardson,
Junior Murvin,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Basic Channel,
Roger Hodgson,
Neu!,
CMW,
Loose Ends,
The Cowsills,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minnie Riperton,
New York Dolls,
Pierre Henry,
Jeff Mills,
Godley & Creme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Intrusion,
Warren Ellis,
The Fire Engines,
The Black Dice,
Jerry's Kids,
Goldenarms,
Anakelly,
Bronski Beat,
Heaven 17,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Khruangbin,
The Monochrome Set,
Sandy B,
Lakeside,
Yaz,
The Gories,
Chrome,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Seeds,
New Order,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ronan,
Moebius,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Leonard Cohen,
Groovy Waters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Faraquet,
Altered Images,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.