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 Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Funky Four + One to the dance 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Deadbeat,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacques Brel,
The Dirtbombs,
Bluetip,
The J.B.'s,
The Fugs,
Todd Rundgren,
Faust,
Harpers Bizarre,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Names,
Aural Exciters,
The Birthday Party,
Hoover,
Talk Talk,
DNA,
The Searchers,
Roxette,
The Last Poets,
Delta 5,
Royal Trux,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Groovy Waters,
Dennis Brown,
Moby Grape,
Easy Going,
Spoonie Gee,
Lower 48,
The Doobie Brothers,
Y Pants,
Nick Fraelich,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Five Americans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Underground Resistance,
Newcleus,
Nils Olav,
Yusef Lateef,
Minny Pops,
The Durutti Column,
June Days,
Alton Ellis,
Absolute Body Control,
Al Stewart,
Ornette Coleman,
Black Sheep,
Motorama,
Cluster,
JFA,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang Gang Dance,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Whodini,
Toni Rubio,
Donny Hathaway,
Malaria!,
Ultravox,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.