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 Houston.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer 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 Jeff Mills to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
The Mummies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Pretty Things,
the Germs,
Agitation Free,
Scott Walker,
David McCallum,
Toni Rubio,
Con Funk Shun,
Los Fastidios,
Second Layer,
Heaven 17,
Joyce Sims,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Malaria!,
The Monochrome Set,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eddi Front,
Roxette,
F. McDonald,
Traffic Nightmare,
Donald Byrd,
Fluxion,
Eurythmics,
Minnie Riperton,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Angels of Light,
Lightning Bolt,
Sexual Harrassment,
Brand Nubian,
Outsiders,
Mo-Dettes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultravox,
Tim Buckley,
Crash Course in Science,
Deakin,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Vogues,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dennis Brown,
The Raincoats,
The Gories,
Chrome,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Surgeon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABC,
Minny Pops,
The Searchers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Pus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maurizio,
The Doors,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.