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 Spain and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rekid to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Monolake,
Model 500,
Brand Nubian,
Simply Red,
Sarah Menescal,
EPMD,
World's Most,
Donald Byrd,
Icehouse,
Soulsonic Force,
Joe Finger,
Godley & Creme,
Alton Ellis,
Television,
Aloha Tigers,
Angry Samoans,
Vainqueur,
Arcadia,
Sonic Youth,
Althea and Donna,
Laurel Aitken,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Piero Umiliani,
The Selecter,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Prunes,
Delta 5,
Crooked Eye,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fatback Band,
Avey Tare,
Derrick May,
Todd Terry,
Stereo Dub,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soft Machine,
Dennis Brown,
John Cale,
Qualms,
Glenn Branca,
The Raincoats,
X-Ray Spex,
The Neon Judgement,
Carl Craig,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mission of Burma,
the Bar-Kays,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Liliput,
D'Angelo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fuzztones,
New Order,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Residents,
LL Cool J,
Minny Pops,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.