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 Rwanda and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Cairo.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 the Association to the techno 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Leonard Cohen,
The New Christs,
Los Fastidios,
Donny Hathaway,
Oneida,
Altered Images,
Soul II Soul,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Association,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quantec,
The Evens,
Deakin,
Blake Baxter,
Ossler,
Excepter,
Pantytec,
Bobby Sherman,
Terry Callier,
Erykah Badu,
The Fugs,
Nas,
The Gap Band,
Wasted Youth,
Bobby Womack,
Pierre Henry,
Y Pants,
Tubeway Army,
Slave,
Q and Not U,
Isaac Hayes,
Ice-T,
Panda Bear,
Vainqueur,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Siglo XX,
The Remains,
Rapeman,
These Immortal Souls,
Quadrant,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Motorama,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fall,
Alphaville,
The Martian,
Joyce Sims,
Lungfish,
EPMD,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Selecter,
Fluxion,
Eurythmics,
Terrestrial Tones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.