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 Qatar and from Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 linndrum 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 Zapp to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Pulsallama,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Oblivians,
Soul II Soul,
Suburban Knight,
Andrew Hill,
Bad Manners,
Saccharine Trust,
the Germs,
Gang Starr,
Scan 7,
Bauhaus,
Wings,
Television Personalities,
Easy Going,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Godley & Creme,
The Flesh Eaters,
Deadbeat,
Stereo Dub,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eric Copeland,
Pantaleimon,
Massinfluence,
Skarface,
Das Ding,
The Velvet Underground,
Funkadelic,
Warren Ellis,
DJ Style,
Joensuu 1685,
the Bar-Kays,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Josef K,
Graham Central Station,
Rites of Spring,
Alison Limerick,
Alice Coltrane,
The Knickerbockers,
Kurtis Blow,
Japan,
Los Fastidios,
Television,
Main Source,
Neil Young,
The Selecter,
Tubeway Army,
48th St. Collective,
The J.B.'s,
Urselle,
Q65,
Fear,
Minny Pops,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Birthday Party,
The Fall,
The Associates,
The Real Kids,
Jerry's Kids,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deepchord,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.