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 Qatar and from London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Swell Maps to the jazz 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cymande,
Ludus,
John Holt,
The Black Dice,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mo-Dettes,
L. Decosne,
Anakelly,
KRS-One,
The Sonics,
La Düsseldorf,
Urselle,
Saccharine Trust,
Eric Dolphy,
The Beau Brummels,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Underground Resistance,
Dead Boys,
Index,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mission of Burma,
PIL,
Ituana,
Juan Atkins,
Yellowson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Last Poets,
Pet Shop Boys,
Essential Logic,
Oneida,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cal Tjader,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Doors,
Sight & Sound,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare,
Henry Cow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Theoretical Girls,
Sun Ra,
Tom Boy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rites of Spring,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moody Blues,
Iggy Pop,
Jeru the Damaja,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
H. Thieme,
Q65,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Technova,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABBA,
Sandy B,
Laurel Aitken,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.