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 Denmark and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 arpeggiator 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 David Axelrod to the rap 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nas,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Harpers Bizarre,
Silicon Teens,
The Durutti Column,
Magma,
The Skatalites,
Dennis Brown,
Black Moon,
Camouflage,
the Soft Cell,
FM Einheit,
Urselle,
The Gories,
Whodini,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Pop Group,
Neu!,
Livin' Joy,
Colin Newman,
Vainqueur,
Andrew Hill,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tom Boy,
Morten Harket,
Gong,
R.M.O.,
Peter & Gordon,
Delta 5,
Albert Ayler,
The Busters,
Japan,
David McCallum,
Yusef Lateef,
Derrick May,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Swans,
Minnie Riperton,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Janne Schatter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deepchord,
MDC,
Theoretical Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Erykah Badu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lou Christie,
Kerrie Biddell,
Robert Hood,
Ponytail,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Doors,
Angry Samoans,
Camberwell Now,
The Slits,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.