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 Azerbaijan and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 snare 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
U.S. Maple,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gil Scott Heron,
Michelle Simonal,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
L. Decosne,
Mission of Burma,
Camberwell Now,
Crime,
DJ Style,
Eurythmics,
Terry Callier,
Stereo Dub,
The Blues Magoos,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lalo Schifrin,
Reuben Wilson,
Ice-T,
The Toasters,
Television,
T. Rex,
Essential Logic,
Isaac Hayes,
Scott Walker,
Ponytail,
Curtis Mayfield,
Panda Bear,
Hot Snakes,
Althea and Donna,
Ohio Players,
Bill Wells,
Delta 5,
Gregory Isaacs,
Drexciya,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Don Cherry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
In Retrospect,
Dark Day,
Donald Byrd,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lindisfarne,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rosa Yemen,
Scion,
Tommy Roe,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fluxion,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Move,
Neil Young,
Altered Images,
Marc Almond,
Kool Moe Dee,
Terrestrial Tones,
E-Dancer,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brick,
The Divine Comedy,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.