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 Kyrgyzstan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Tom Verlaine 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 The Tremeloes to the rock 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Dark Day,
Amon Düül,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Trojans,
Donald Byrd,
Depeche Mode,
Nils Olav,
Toni Rubio,
Sixth Finger,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Graham Central Station,
Second Layer,
Max Romeo,
Jeff Mills,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rekid,
Jacques Brel,
Nico,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deakin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
B.T. Express,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soul II Soul,
Eve St. Jones,
Nirvana,
Gregory Isaacs,
Al Stewart,
Quadrant,
Average White Band,
L. Decosne,
Franke,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DNA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ten City,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cameo,
Ponytail,
The Misunderstood,
Country Teasers,
Outsiders,
The Mummies,
Eric Dolphy,
Suicide,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radiohead,
Black Flag,
Ludus,
Ultravox,
Mandrill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chrome,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Little Man,
Lou Reed,
Mantronix,
Sight & Sound,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.