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 Macedonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lalann to the punk 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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Schoolly D,
AZ,
Marine Girls,
MDC,
Crime,
Electric Prunes,
Con Funk Shun,
Television,
Toni Rubio,
Lower 48,
Mo-Dettes,
Radiohead,
Big Daddy Kane,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mr. Review,
The Fire Engines,
Chris Corsano,
Amon Düül II,
The Zeros,
John Foxx,
The Happenings,
Jeru the Damaja,
Make Up,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sun City Girls,
Gil Scott Heron,
Thee Headcoats,
FM Einheit,
Mars,
Kayak,
Niagra,
Scion,
The Neon Judgement,
Yazoo,
Sonic Youth,
Fatback Band,
Unwound,
The Move,
Dawn Penn,
The Mummies,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Normal,
Ituana,
The Associates,
Donald Byrd,
10cc,
Mandrill,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bronski Beat,
Bootsy Collins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mary Jane Girls,
Symarip,
Main Source,
Leonard Cohen,
The Skatalites,
Andrew Hill,
The Gun Club,
Tim Buckley,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.