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 Israel and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Spoonie Gee to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
New Age Steppers,
Tommy Roe,
Pantaleimon,
This Heat,
In Retrospect,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marmalade,
Agitation Free,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Loose Ends,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bang On A Can,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sight & Sound,
Ludus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rotary Connection,
The New Christs,
Das Ding,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Terry Callier,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Danielle Patucci,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Unrelated Segments,
Thee Headcoats,
The Music Machine,
The Moleskins,
The Fuzztones,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Arcadia,
The Cowsills,
The Index,
Au Pairs,
DNA,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Faust,
Ossler,
Minutemen,
Oneida,
Eric Dolphy,
Mandrill,
Yazoo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
David Axelrod,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Vladislav Delay,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Letta Mbulu,
Von Mondo,
MDC,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Todd Rundgren,
The Durutti Column,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.