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 Lesotho and from Lagos.
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 Philadelphia and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Minutemen,
Bobby Womack,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Josef K,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Andrew Hill,
Fatback Band,
EPMD,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eddi Front,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soft Cell,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Technova,
Erykah Badu,
Cluster,
Altered Images,
Organ,
New Order,
Jandek,
Archie Shepp,
Isaac Hayes,
Main Source,
Flash Fearless,
48th St. Collective,
Chris & Cosey,
Barbara Tucker,
Siglo XX,
Nas,
Inner City,
Scan 7,
Shoche,
The Human League,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Stooges,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Harry Pussy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ohio Players,
Tom Boy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dennis Brown,
Model 500,
Sparks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Harpers Bizarre,
The American Breed,
Cybotron,
Scott Walker,
Pussy Galore,
Kurtis Blow,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
A Certain Ratio,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.