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 Greece and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar 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 48th St. Collective to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Happenings,
Japan,
Bluetip,
Anthony Braxton,
Q and Not U,
Wire,
Lindisfarne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
One Last Wish,
Todd Rundgren,
The Fugs,
Bobby Byrd,
Tears for Fears,
Metal Thangz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Faraquet,
Massinfluence,
Joey Negro,
Erasure,
The Durutti Column,
LL Cool J,
Pylon,
Mad Mike,
Derrick May,
The Kinks,
Dave Gahan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lightning Bolt,
Kurtis Blow,
Groovy Waters,
The Litter,
Chris Corsano,
Quadrant,
Al Stewart,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
R.M.O.,
Neu!,
L. Decosne,
the Human League,
Jimmy McGriff,
Schoolly D,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nils Olav,
Depeche Mode,
Kas Product,
Desert Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Godley & Creme,
The Grass Roots,
The Monks,
Swell Maps,
Second Layer,
Essential Logic,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.