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 Congo and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 funk 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 the Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Henry Cow,
Jacob Miller,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rufus Thomas,
10cc,
Zero Boys,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Howard Jones,
Little Man,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Wake,
Crash Course in Science,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Half Japanese,
Glenn Branca,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pussy Galore,
Tomorrow,
kango's stein massive,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Maurizio,
Todd Terry,
Flash Fearless,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Knickerbockers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Derrick Morgan,
Tres Demented,
Swell Maps,
The Mojo Men,
The Evens,
Banda Bassotti,
Chrome,
Schoolly D,
U.S. Maple,
The Birthday Party,
Lalo Schifrin,
Warren Ellis,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Beau Brummels,
Laurel Aitken,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wasted Youth,
Patti Smith,
Agent Orange,
Duran Duran,
Peter and Kerry,
Clear Light,
Barbara Tucker,
Darondo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Glambeats Corp.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Blackbyrds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Japan,
Reuben Wilson,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.