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 Singapore and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Toronto.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flesh Eaters to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Womack,
The Tremeloes,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Görl,
Delon & Dalcan,
Moss Icon,
Peter & Gordon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nas,
Infiniti,
The Grass Roots,
the Association,
Organ,
Hardrive,
Audionom,
MC5,
Kaleidoscope,
Bang On A Can,
Blake Baxter,
Chris & Cosey,
Todd Rundgren,
Arcadia,
John Foxx,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eden Ahbez,
Deakin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
10cc,
Ludus,
The Star Department,
Mantronix,
Throbbing Gristle,
X-101,
Bootsy Collins,
Country Teasers,
Aloha Tigers,
Harry Pussy,
U.S. Maple,
Barrington Levy,
Cameo,
Black Flag,
Marvin Gaye,
Young Marble Giants,
Godley & Creme,
Wings,
Sandy B,
The Mummies,
Marmalade,
Erykah Badu,
Niagra,
The Pretty Things,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Animal Collective,
Drexciya,
Graham Central Station,
Cal Tjader,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.