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 Macedonia and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Amon Düül II to the disco 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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Sound Behaviour,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Remains,
Excepter,
Brass Construction,
Ossler,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Last Poets,
Black Pus,
Spoonie Gee,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Hardrive,
The Knickerbockers,
The New Christs,
Robert Hood,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Velvet Underground,
Malaria!,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Sound,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Negative Approach,
Scott Walker,
T.S.O.L.,
The Vogues,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Soft Cell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rites of Spring,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Victims,
Joensuu 1685,
Fatback Band,
Jandek,
Alton Ellis,
Radio Birdman,
Aural Exciters,
Essential Logic,
Pantaleimon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tommy Roe,
Eric Dolphy,
Chrome,
Alison Limerick,
Donny Hathaway,
The Kinks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soft Cell,
Suicide,
Interpol,
Echospace,
X-102,
Amon Düül,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yaz,
Dennis Brown,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.