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 Poland and from Copenhagen.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Michael McDonald 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 Don Cherry to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle 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?
Archie Shepp,
Babytalk,
Todd Terry,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Christie,
The Leaves,
Magazine,
The Birthday Party,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Buzzcocks,
Jandek,
DJ Sneak,
LL Cool J,
Basic Channel,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Morten Harket,
The Evens,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Offenders,
Malaria!,
Silicon Teens,
X-Ray Spex,
Carl Craig,
Clear Light,
Tom Boy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scan 7,
Television,
Freddie Wadling,
CMW,
Fear,
Essential Logic,
Average White Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Negative Approach,
The Associates,
Chrome,
Flamin' Groovies,
Amazonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Count Five,
Cecil Taylor,
The Sound,
Roxette,
Japan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Mojo Men,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Donny Hathaway,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Junior Murvin,
Girls At Our Best!,
Barrington Levy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ken Boothe,
John Foxx,
Second Layer,
Anakelly,
Minnie Riperton,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.