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 Maldives and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Donny Hathaway to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
The Remains,
Dorothy Ashby,
Grey Daturas,
Laurel Aitken,
The Skatalites,
CMW,
Thompson Twins,
Crispy Ambulance,
Quadrant,
The American Breed,
Drexciya,
The Smoke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Neon Judgement,
Ultra Naté,
Half Japanese,
Eric Dolphy,
Basic Channel,
Swans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Archie Shepp,
the Fania All-Stars,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jandek,
Infiniti,
The Monochrome Set,
The Young Rascals,
Circle Jerks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gun Club,
Eric Copeland,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
In Retrospect,
The Star Department,
Cameo,
Fluxion,
Eden Ahbez,
World's Most,
The Smiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
UT,
Groovy Waters,
the Soft Cell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grauzone,
Young Marble Giants,
Fatback Band,
The Trojans,
Donald Byrd,
F. McDonald,
Ludus,
Hardrive,
Kool Moe Dee,
Slave,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pantaleimon,
Tears for Fears,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.