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 Suriname and from Tokyo.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sparks to the grunge 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donald Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Moleskins,
Cal Tjader,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joe Finger,
Joy Division,
Reagan Youth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Grauzone,
Deakin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Con Funk Shun,
Khruangbin,
Pagans,
Schoolly D,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jerry's Kids,
The Angels of Light,
The Buckinghams,
The Offenders,
Yazoo,
The Vogues,
48th St. Collective,
DJ Sneak,
Cymande,
Roger Hodgson,
The Fire Engines,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Monochrome Set,
The American Breed,
Jeru the Damaja,
June of 44,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Echospace,
China Crisis,
Todd Terry,
Bobby Womack,
The Move,
Royal Trux,
Byron Stingily,
Warren Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Agitation Free,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Popol Vuh,
Freddie Wadling,
Morten Harket,
Cecil Taylor,
Ohio Players,
Absolute Body Control,
ABC,
Lalann,
Ken Boothe,
Gabor Szabo,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.