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 Comoros and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bush Tetras to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Porter Ricks. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blake Baxter,
Dead Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
Judy Mowatt,
The Vogues,
David Bowie,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ituana,
Colin Newman,
Zapp,
Neu!,
The Fuzztones,
The Walker Brothers,
Pantaleimon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Erykah Badu,
Alton Ellis,
Delta 5,
New York Dolls,
Funky Four + One,
Rapeman,
Lightning Bolt,
Excepter,
Todd Terry,
Moss Icon,
Icehouse,
Eli Mardock,
Masters at Work,
The Cowsills,
Minny Pops,
T.S.O.L.,
The Birthday Party,
Oneida,
Stetsasonic,
Nas,
Jimmy McGriff,
10cc,
Slick Rick,
The Martian,
Aaron Thompson,
Soul II Soul,
Josef K,
Isaac Hayes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deepchord,
Sarah Menescal,
Patti Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Sound,
Kenny Larkin,
The Leaves,
The Seeds,
Aloha Tigers,
the Germs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.