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 Sierra Leone and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Barry Ungar to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erykah Badu,
Mission of Burma,
Circle Jerks,
The Smoke,
Mr. Review,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sex Pistols,
Public Enemy,
Derrick May,
Spoonie Gee,
Cybotron,
Dark Day,
Bad Manners,
The United States of America,
Neu!,
Carl Craig,
Lindisfarne,
The Moleskins,
Eden Ahbez,
Dead Boys,
Funkadelic,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brick,
Lakeside,
Monks,
Little Man,
Nation of Ulysses,
Television,
Monolake,
Groovy Waters,
Sugar Minott,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Last Poets,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cowsills,
Das Ding,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
kango's stein massive,
The Zeros,
The Motions,
Eve St. Jones,
Angry Samoans,
Leonard Cohen,
Kaleidoscope,
One Last Wish,
Donald Byrd,
Hardrive,
Robert Wyatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pole,
T.S.O.L.,
Black Pus,
Pulsallama,
Barrington Levy,
the Swans,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.