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 Mauritius 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin 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 E-Dancer to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Brand Nubian,
Slick Rick,
Bill Wells,
Kayak,
Rosa Yemen,
AZ,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Quantec,
Leonard Cohen,
The Happenings,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Moon,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
CMW,
Peter and Kerry,
Tim Buckley,
The Detroit Cobras,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joensuu 1685,
Susan Cadogan,
The J.B.'s,
Japan,
Max Romeo,
Pantaleimon,
Unwound,
Reuben Wilson,
Soul II Soul,
Bizarre Inc.,
Royal Trux,
Half Japanese,
Traffic Nightmare,
Buzzcocks,
Camouflage,
Jawbox,
The Human League,
Johnny Clarke,
Chrome,
The Blues Magoos,
Althea and Donna,
The New Christs,
Tom Boy,
This Heat,
L. Decosne,
Gong,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Interpol,
Junior Murvin,
The Knickerbockers,
Qualms,
The Fortunes,
Camberwell Now,
Schoolly D,
Chris Corsano,
Erykah Badu,
Public Image Ltd.,
Darondo,
The Walker Brothers,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.