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 Ghana and from Portland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Kerrie Biddell to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tomorrow,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ultimate Spinach,
cv313,
Reuben Wilson,
Pantaleimon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harmonia,
The Shadows of Knight,
Marc Almond,
Lindisfarne,
Unwound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rakim,
48th St. Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Maurizio,
Stetsasonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
Organ,
Byron Stingily,
Boredoms,
The Gories,
Scion,
The Vogues,
Kenny Larkin,
Groovy Waters,
Yazoo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Carl Craig,
Lungfish,
Oblivians,
Kool Moe Dee,
D'Angelo,
Soft Machine,
the Slits,
Technova,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Monks,
Ultravox,
Royal Trux,
Todd Terry,
Lakeside,
Quantec,
June Days,
Joey Negro,
Joensuu 1685,
Harry Pussy,
Aural Exciters,
Model 500,
Marine Girls,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.