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 Ethiopia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Talk Talk to the disco 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
the Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
Das Ding,
Thompson Twins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roxy Music,
Derrick May,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scrapy,
Main Source,
Goldenarms,
Porter Ricks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Juan Atkins,
LL Cool J,
Con Funk Shun,
Monolake,
Scan 7,
Lou Christie,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Prince Buster,
Lungfish,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jimmy McGriff,
Brand Nubian,
Derrick Morgan,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Beau Brummels,
Franke,
Inner City,
Wolf Eyes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Babytalk,
The Cowsills,
Black Flag,
Magazine,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Mummies,
Alton Ellis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Fuzztones,
Absolute Body Control,
Tim Buckley,
The Moleskins,
Alison Limerick,
John Foxx,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grauzone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Knickerbockers,
Sex Pistols,
Cameo,
ABC,
Charles Mingus,
F. McDonald,
Lyres,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Happenings,
Ronnie Foster,
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.