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 Peru and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Erykah Badu to the rock 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Panda Bear,
the Germs,
Zero Boys,
Young Marble Giants,
Model 500,
the Fania All-Stars,
The J.B.'s,
Neu!,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jawbox,
Soft Cell,
Monks,
Sound Behaviour,
Mantronix,
Porter Ricks,
Joey Negro,
Sugar Minott,
Con Funk Shun,
Saccharine Trust,
LL Cool J,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quadrant,
This Heat,
David Bowie,
Cybotron,
Swans,
The New Christs,
Fear,
Lightning Bolt,
The Blues Magoos,
The Litter,
Glenn Branca,
Laurel Aitken,
Bootsy Collins,
The Beau Brummels,
Magazine,
Dennis Brown,
Morten Harket,
Rod Modell,
Dual Sessions,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crash Course in Science,
X-101,
Alison Limerick,
Little Man,
Roxy Music,
Infiniti,
Robert Hood,
The Cramps,
K-Klass,
Toni Rubio,
Intrusion,
Fad Gadget,
Deadbeat,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bill Wells,
Blake Baxter,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.