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 Finland and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Groovy Waters to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
The Shadows of Knight,
Newcleus,
Eve St. Jones,
Tres Demented,
DJ Style,
Yaz,
Model 500,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fela Kuti,
This Heat,
Massinfluence,
Mantronix,
Bush Tetras,
Aaron Thompson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Q65,
Quando Quango,
EPMD,
Royal Trux,
The Young Rascals,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Oneida,
David McCallum,
Minutemen,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Faust,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Whodini,
The Monochrome Set,
The Pretty Things,
Zapp,
Joensuu 1685,
Kas Product,
New York Dolls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
U.S. Maple,
Alice Coltrane,
Zero Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Robert Hood,
Q and Not U,
Fad Gadget,
Liliput,
Moby Grape,
Gichy Dan,
Buzzcocks,
Clear Light,
Jerry's Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
KRS-One,
Letta Mbulu,
Popol Vuh,
The Toasters,
The Blackbyrds,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Monks,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.