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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 UT to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Todd Terry,
R.M.O.,
X-102,
Shoche,
The Skatalites,
Electric Prunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fuzztones,
The Grass Roots,
Unwound,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris & Cosey,
The Electric Prunes,
Niagra,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
New Age Steppers,
Quantec,
Pantytec,
Sarah Menescal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joey Negro,
Skaos,
Sight & Sound,
Von Mondo,
Ponytail,
Don Cherry,
China Crisis,
Swell Maps,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
E-Dancer,
Gichy Dan,
Amon Düül,
Oneida,
Cal Tjader,
Howard Jones,
Eric Copeland,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Grey Daturas,
the Germs,
Roxy Music,
Monolake,
Joyce Sims,
Harmonia,
Toni Rubio,
Average White Band,
Sam Rivers,
Zapp,
The Monochrome Set,
Lower 48,
Marc Almond,
Symarip,
Chris Corsano,
Ultra Naté,
Minutemen,
The Remains,
Neu!,
The Dead C,
Fela Kuti,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ituana,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.