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 Turkey and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tomorrow 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Isaac Hayes,
Motorama,
Panda Bear,
Brand Nubian,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
The Pretty Things,
Crispian St. Peters,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra,
The Cowsills,
Neu!,
Essential Logic,
Dawn Penn,
Groovy Waters,
Ronan,
Animal Collective,
New York Dolls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jacques Brel,
The Offenders,
The Slackers,
Pere Ubu,
Sparks,
Royal Trux,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Oblivians,
Scrapy,
The Knickerbockers,
The Toasters,
Cymande,
Darondo,
Pantaleimon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lee Hazlewood,
B.T. Express,
Hashim,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cameo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Goldenarms,
Lindisfarne,
Massinfluence,
Theoretical Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kerrie Biddell,
Japan,
Hardrive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ossler,
Camouflage,
The Gap Band,
Joy Division,
Zero Boys,
The Fortunes,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.