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 Finland and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the funk 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Martian,
Marvin Gaye,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Quando Quango,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
L. Decosne,
Kerri Chandler,
Television Personalities,
The Seeds,
Q and Not U,
Robert Wyatt,
Scan 7,
Soft Machine,
The Dave Clark Five,
Interpol,
Newcleus,
Amon Düül,
Nas,
Banda Bassotti,
Tim Buckley,
The Index,
Soft Cell,
Alphaville,
Absolute Body Control,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tom Boy,
The Residents,
Au Pairs,
48th St. Collective,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
kango's stein massive,
Neil Young,
Nirvana,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bill Near,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultravox,
Gerry Rafferty,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Crime,
Lou Reed,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rakim,
Camberwell Now,
Slave,
Tommy Roe,
Ohio Players,
This Heat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cal Tjader,
Warren Ellis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Infiniti,
Donny Hathaway,
The Misunderstood,
Gong,
Drive Like Jehu,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.