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 Andorra and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin 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 Crime to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Moss Icon,
Tom Boy,
Deadbeat,
Lebanon Hanover,
Stereo Dub,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sam Rivers,
Nik Kershaw,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ultra Naté,
Yusef Lateef,
Vainqueur,
Mantronix,
The Seeds,
T.S.O.L.,
The Offenders,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pantytec,
The Moleskins,
Arthur Verocai,
John Coltrane,
Wolf Eyes,
The Litter,
Trumans Water,
Scratch Acid,
Flamin' Groovies,
Q65,
In Retrospect,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Junior Murvin,
D'Angelo,
John Foxx,
MDC,
Barrington Levy,
The Young Rascals,
Visage,
The Red Krayola,
Judy Mowatt,
Mandrill,
Eric Copeland,
Gregory Isaacs,
Robert Hood,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Associates,
Cluster,
Joey Negro,
Country Teasers,
Sixth Finger,
Man Parrish,
KRS-One,
Juan Atkins,
Cal Tjader,
Morten Harket,
Franke,
Josef K,
The Remains,
Matthew Bourne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The American Breed,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.