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 Suriname and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Yusef Lateef to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Michelle Simonal,
Howard Jones,
Chris Corsano,
Maleditus Sound,
The Busters,
Massinfluence,
Unwound,
The Offenders,
Glenn Branca,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bill Near,
Outsiders,
Thompson Twins,
The Buckinghams,
Sällskapet,
Amazonics,
Ice-T,
Bootsy Collins,
Lalo Schifrin,
Laurel Aitken,
Basic Channel,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terrestrial Tones,
Television Personalities,
Gichy Dan,
Alison Limerick,
KRS-One,
Eve St. Jones,
Boogie Down Productions,
Talk Talk,
The Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barrington Levy,
The Sonics,
Charles Mingus,
Connie Case,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Chris & Cosey,
Infiniti,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wasted Youth,
R.M.O.,
Q and Not U,
Public Image Ltd.,
Susan Cadogan,
PIL,
Deadbeat,
The New Christs,
Deepchord,
Joey Negro,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eurythmics,
Moebius,
Motorama,
Blancmange,
Erykah Badu,
the Soft Cell,
X-101,
Magazine,
Swans,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.