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 Guyana and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 FM Einheit to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Los Fastidios,
The Misunderstood,
Sarah Menescal,
48th St. Collective,
Country Teasers,
Panda Bear,
Young Marble Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marshall Jefferson,
La Düsseldorf,
Marcia Griffiths,
Radio Birdman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spoonie Gee,
Alphaville,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Average White Band,
Rekid,
Soulsonic Force,
MDC,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Erykah Badu,
Masters at Work,
David McCallum,
The Black Dice,
Ten City,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jesper Dahlback,
Intrusion,
Circle Jerks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sällskapet,
Lyres,
This Heat,
Model 500,
The Dead C,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sun City Girls,
The Cramps,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Foxx,
Jeru the Damaja,
Faust,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sun Ra,
the Sonics,
Aural Exciters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Massinfluence,
the Bar-Kays,
Brass Construction,
Erasure,
Audionom,
Negative Approach,
Rites of Spring,
The Remains,
Youth Brigade,
Qualms,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.