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 Sweden and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
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 mellotron 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 Sandy B to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Sheep,
Black Moon,
10cc,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tears for Fears,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Boz Scaggs,
48th St. Collective,
Theoretical Girls,
Judy Mowatt,
Grauzone,
Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Fad Gadget,
Easy Going,
Gang Starr,
Mission of Burma,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pierre Henry,
Ultravox,
Big Daddy Kane,
These Immortal Souls,
Sonic Youth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kaleidoscope,
Dark Day,
Cecil Taylor,
Lakeside,
Bobby Womack,
Matthew Halsall,
Hot Snakes,
Guru Guru,
Roxy Music,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tomorrow,
Soft Machine,
The Skatalites,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Byrd,
Neu!,
Au Pairs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eve St. Jones,
The Zeros,
Accadde A,
Loose Ends,
Metal Thangz,
Negative Approach,
The Toasters,
E-Dancer,
The Music Machine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Maleditus Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
Cluster,
Gichy Dan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.