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 Zimbabwe and from Columbus.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cecil Taylor to the rap 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalann,
Suicide,
Slave,
Soft Cell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Spoonie Gee,
David Bowie,
The Human League,
Y Pants,
The Cramps,
Tropical Tobacco,
Aaron Thompson,
Severed Heads,
Technova,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Aural Exciters,
World's Most,
Procol Harum,
the Swans,
The Toasters,
Organ,
Simply Red,
Quantec,
Pere Ubu,
Albert Ayler,
Newcleus,
Japan,
LL Cool J,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Music Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Machine,
The Black Dice,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stiv Bators,
The Gories,
the Sonics,
Toni Rubio,
The Count Five,
Inner City,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Kinks,
Basic Channel,
AZ,
D'Angelo,
The Neon Judgement,
Amon Düül,
Shoche,
Parry Music,
The Walker Brothers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fuzztones,
Yusef Lateef,
In Retrospect,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.