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 Andorra and from Edmonton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bang On A Can to the rap 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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Duran Duran,
Matthew Halsall,
Half Japanese,
June of 44,
Trumans Water,
The Slits,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Deakin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Golliwogs,
The Blues Magoos,
cv313,
The Velvet Underground,
LL Cool J,
DJ Style,
Underground Resistance,
Flipper,
Jeff Mills,
The Fuzztones,
Reagan Youth,
Camouflage,
The Cramps,
Lalo Schifrin,
JFA,
K-Klass,
The Count Five,
Harmonia,
Nirvana,
The Offenders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
The Motions,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dave Gahan,
Sam Rivers,
The Smiths,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lower 48,
Robert Görl,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
La Düsseldorf,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rufus Thomas,
Khruangbin,
Joe Finger,
Funky Four + One,
Al Stewart,
Warren Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joyce Sims,
Inner City,
The Star Department,
48th St. Collective,
The Shadows of Knight,
E-Dancer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ice-T,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.