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 France and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Theoretical Girls to the techno 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Godley & Creme,
Saccharine Trust,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
E-Dancer,
John Holt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blake Baxter,
New Age Steppers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Soulsonic Force,
Joe Finger,
Whodini,
Kas Product,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Khruangbin,
The Real Kids,
The Moody Blues,
The Monochrome Set,
Swell Maps,
Roxy Music,
Roy Ayers,
The Star Department,
Hardrive,
Gang Green,
The Pop Group,
Skarface,
Ice-T,
Crash Course in Science,
Wolf Eyes,
Cymande,
Joe Smooth,
Malaria!,
The Sound,
Nirvana,
Brass Construction,
Von Mondo,
The Move,
The Toasters,
The Dave Clark Five,
One Last Wish,
Neu!,
the Human League,
Groovy Waters,
Delta 5,
K-Klass,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Five Americans,
48th St. Collective,
Angry Samoans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Black Flag,
Anthony Braxton,
The Pretty Things,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Big Daddy Kane,
Faust,
Andrew Hill,
The Saints,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.