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 Burkina and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Black Moon to the electroclash 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Severed Heads,
New Age Steppers,
48th St. Collective,
Agitation Free,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Robert Görl,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Excepter,
Warsaw,
Easy Going,
Lalann,
The Blues Magoos,
Outsiders,
Masters at Work,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pagans,
Wings,
Panda Bear,
Joey Negro,
Joyce Sims,
Cybotron,
Marvin Gaye,
The Selecter,
Hot Snakes,
Nils Olav,
Suburban Knight,
The Sound,
Kenny Larkin,
The Leaves,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roger Hodgson,
Kaleidoscope,
Jandek,
Banda Bassotti,
Pulsallama,
Ice-T,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gang Starr,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Stereo Dub,
Little Man,
Josef K,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie,
Pharoah Sanders,
Smog,
The Trojans,
Blake Baxter,
The Cure,
the Human League,
Jacques Brel,
One Last Wish,
The Martian,
Colin Newman,
Icehouse,
Bootsy Collins,
Goldenarms,
MDC,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.