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 Tunisia and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar 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 The Knickerbockers to the techno 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Joe Smooth,
Japan,
The Monochrome Set,
Negative Approach,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Motions,
Los Fastidios,
Rosa Yemen,
Masters at Work,
Roger Hodgson,
Porter Ricks,
The Techniques,
The Victims,
Piero Umiliani,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Electric Light Orchestra,
June Days,
Q and Not U,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Nico,
The Stooges,
Janne Schatter,
Black Bananas,
The Index,
Trumans Water,
The Sonics,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cameo,
Faust,
DJ Style,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
Pierre Henry,
Eurythmics,
Suicide,
New Order,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Interpol,
Black Sheep,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobby Byrd,
In Retrospect,
Lightning Bolt,
Television Personalities,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minny Pops,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
Cecil Taylor,
The Kinks,
The Neon Judgement,
The Pretty Things,
Barrington Levy,
Rufus Thomas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quando Quango,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.