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 Morocco and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Jacques Brel,
Zero Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nik Kershaw,
L. Decosne,
Archie Shepp,
Harmonia,
Rites of Spring,
Television Personalities,
the Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
KRS-One,
The Dead C,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Blues Magoos,
Darondo,
Roy Ayers,
Graham Central Station,
Popol Vuh,
Quadrant,
The Grass Roots,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Smog,
Brothers Johnson,
Bizarre Inc.,
China Crisis,
One Last Wish,
Yazoo,
David McCallum,
Ohio Players,
Rapeman,
Amon Düül II,
Joensuu 1685,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blackbyrds,
Panda Bear,
Aswad,
Niagra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Shoche,
Bobby Sherman,
Sun City Girls,
Sixth Finger,
Kevin Saunderson,
48th St. Collective,
Suicide,
Jawbox,
Technova,
Eddi Front,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Electric Prunes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Moon,
Heaven 17,
Blake Baxter,
Boredoms,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.