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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum 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 Brass Construction to the funk 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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Khruangbin,
Saccharine Trust,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nico,
Bizarre Inc.,
Carl Craig,
The Litter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Erasure,
Delta 5,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultravox,
Delon & Dalcan,
Anthony Braxton,
The Selecter,
Underground Resistance,
Alton Ellis,
CMW,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scratch Acid,
These Immortal Souls,
Roger Hodgson,
kango's stein massive,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Derrick Morgan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eurythmics,
The Wake,
The Searchers,
Harmonia,
Smog,
Massinfluence,
Vladislav Delay,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Barbara Tucker,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rod Modell,
Siglo XX,
Bronski Beat,
The Velvet Underground,
Cymande,
Roxy Music,
Marshall Jefferson,
Country Teasers,
MC5,
Intrusion,
Stereo Dub,
Sällskapet,
The Fall,
Bootsy Collins,
Barrington Levy,
Quadrant,
Niagra,
Mantronix,
Mission of Burma,
The Gladiators,
Eric Copeland,
The Electric Prunes,
Danielle Patucci,
Little Man,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.