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 Zambia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 John Cale to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
Alphaville,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cecil Taylor,
Jawbox,
Aloha Tigers,
Altered Images,
Monks,
The Five Americans,
Warren Ellis,
Charles Mingus,
B.T. Express,
Von Mondo,
Dave Gahan,
Half Japanese,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Popol Vuh,
Lower 48,
UT,
Janne Schatter,
One Last Wish,
The Stooges,
Mars,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed,
Robert Wyatt,
The American Breed,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kevin Saunderson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
Thee Headcoats,
Moby Grape,
The Blackbyrds,
Tres Demented,
Cheater Slicks,
The Happenings,
Zero Boys,
Wolf Eyes,
Stereo Dub,
The Slackers,
Yusef Lateef,
Gabor Szabo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
R.M.O.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nik Kershaw,
The Birthday Party,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Yaz,
Yazoo,
Brand Nubian,
The J.B.'s,
Albert Ayler,
Rapeman,
Zapp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Real Kids,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.