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 Spain and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Aloha Tigers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Von Mondo,
Royal Trux,
Ken Boothe,
KRS-One,
Black Bananas,
Eli Mardock,
Lightning Bolt,
Essential Logic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Vainqueur,
E-Dancer,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David McCallum,
Ponytail,
Au Pairs,
Man Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
Lucky Dragons,
Glenn Branca,
Spandau Ballet,
DJ Style,
Eden Ahbez,
Japan,
Public Enemy,
Neu!,
New Age Steppers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tommy Roe,
The Buckinghams,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harry Pussy,
Bronski Beat,
Arab on Radar,
The Black Dice,
Ice-T,
The Fall,
Aural Exciters,
Sparks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Max Romeo,
Minutemen,
Warsaw,
Ornette Coleman,
The Smoke,
Circle Jerks,
Livin' Joy,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed,
The Gun Club,
Magazine,
Toni Rubio,
Prince Buster,
Lakeside,
Slave,
Underground Resistance,
John Coltrane,
Fela Kuti,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.