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 Australia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sun Ra to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Eve St. Jones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Invisible,
Arthur Verocai,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Absolute Body Control,
The Smiths,
David Bowie,
Au Pairs,
Harry Pussy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Moon,
Rufus Thomas,
Soulsonic Force,
Easy Going,
Shoche,
Colin Newman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Glambeats Corp.,
New Age Steppers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mantronix,
Reuben Wilson,
Theoretical Girls,
the Bar-Kays,
Whodini,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thee Headcoats,
Boredoms,
The Dirtbombs,
Ossler,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Quadrant,
Yusef Lateef,
Eden Ahbez,
Deepchord,
Chrome,
Roger Hodgson,
Gong,
Alphaville,
The Flesh Eaters,
Livin' Joy,
Ohio Players,
Smog,
Aural Exciters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Moss Icon,
The Slits,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Little Man,
David McCallum,
ABC,
Lou Reed,
These Immortal Souls,
The Searchers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kas Product,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.