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 Senegal and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 The Divine Comedy to the rap 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Deadbeat,
Juan Atkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moebius,
The Doors,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Chris Corsano,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Smoke,
Ludus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Josef K,
The Sonics,
Amon Düül,
The Gun Club,
Mars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Section 25,
Eli Mardock,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sight & Sound,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lakeside,
Pantytec,
Pharoah Sanders,
Slick Rick,
Public Enemy,
Saccharine Trust,
Nico,
The Fall,
Chrome,
Ossler,
Bad Manners,
Drexciya,
Joe Smooth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Martian,
The Dead C,
MC5,
China Crisis,
The Gladiators,
Trumans Water,
Deepchord,
Marvin Gaye,
The Searchers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lower 48,
Jandek,
Brick,
The Kinks,
Wire,
48th St. Collective,
The Music Machine,
Ronan,
Jeff Mills,
Soulsonic Force,
Qualms,
Stetsasonic,
Monolake,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.