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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 June of 44 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Moleskins,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
Mo-Dettes,
Todd Rundgren,
Jerry's Kids,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Silicon Teens,
Rakim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Urselle,
The Zeros,
Ronan,
The Names,
X-102,
Basic Channel,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cymande,
Theoretical Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Moss Icon,
Surgeon,
Moby Grape,
Roy Ayers,
Jawbox,
Thompson Twins,
Royal Trux,
John Holt,
Nils Olav,
Desert Stars,
Kenny Larkin,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ultra Naté,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kaleidoscope,
Harry Pussy,
Vladislav Delay,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
T. Rex,
Barbara Tucker,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Newcleus,
Sugar Minott,
Half Japanese,
Tres Demented,
Pole,
Ponytail,
Matthew Bourne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dennis Brown,
David Axelrod,
Donald Byrd,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.