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 Tonga and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
R.M.O.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Popol Vuh,
Derrick May,
Janne Schatter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Harmonia,
Colin Newman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moss Icon,
DJ Style,
KRS-One,
Anthony Braxton,
The Slits,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mary Jane Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Monks,
Silicon Teens,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Echospace,
Outsiders,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Country Teasers,
Schoolly D,
Flash Fearless,
Marshall Jefferson,
Aural Exciters,
kango's stein massive,
U.S. Maple,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lalann,
The Misunderstood,
Ultimate Spinach,
Arab on Radar,
Dennis Brown,
cv313,
Stetsasonic,
Bobby Byrd,
Metal Thangz,
Judy Mowatt,
Michelle Simonal,
Ronnie Foster,
Pantaleimon,
Symarip,
Model 500,
Wasted Youth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Crooked Eye,
the Association,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Urselle,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nik Kershaw,
Crime,
Roxette,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.