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 Morocco and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 marimba 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 Stetsasonic to the dance 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Lakeside,
Joe Smooth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Erykah Badu,
The Zeros,
Franke,
Youth Brigade,
Hot Snakes,
Sonic Youth,
Neil Young,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Evens,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Monks,
Soul II Soul,
The Doors,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Essential Logic,
Lightning Bolt,
Massinfluence,
Radiopuhelimet,
Vainqueur,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eli Mardock,
Duran Duran,
Deadbeat,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
In Retrospect,
Ken Boothe,
Outsiders,
The American Breed,
Unrelated Segments,
David McCallum,
The Detroit Cobras,
Barry Ungar,
Janne Schatter,
Ronan,
Tom Boy,
Funky Four + One,
X-Ray Spex,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crooked Eye,
Alice Coltrane,
The Stooges,
The Music Machine,
Grandmaster Flash,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eden Ahbez,
Danielle Patucci,
Carl Craig,
The Dead C,
Michelle Simonal,
The Happenings,
The Techniques,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.