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 Kenya and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pussy Galore to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Alison Limerick,
Blake Baxter,
The Mojo Men,
Marvin Gaye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scratch Acid,
Severed Heads,
Mark Hollis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Half Japanese,
Rod Modell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young,
Sam Rivers,
The Move,
Chrome,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pharoah Sanders,
Qualms,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bauhaus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Holt,
Japan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crooked Eye,
Peter and Kerry,
The Motions,
Tres Demented,
Gang Gang Dance,
Oblivians,
Accadde A,
Sonic Youth,
Parry Music,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Iggy Pop,
Radio Birdman,
Thompson Twins,
The Vogues,
The Fall,
Eden Ahbez,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Residents,
Royal Trux,
Tropical Tobacco,
Porter Ricks,
Soulsonic Force,
Bang On A Can,
Joy Division,
DJ Sneak,
Young Marble Giants,
Jeff Lynne,
The J.B.'s,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Human League,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bootsy Collins,
Tubeway Army,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.