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 Poland and from Paris.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lalo Schifrin to the disco 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Eve St. Jones,
John Lydon,
Brand Nubian,
Section 25,
Popol Vuh,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Godley & Creme,
Deakin,
Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pylon,
Susan Cadogan,
Sam Rivers,
Joe Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Reuben Wilson,
The Fire Engines,
Lyres,
the Sonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pantytec,
Lakeside,
The Slits,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cluster,
Excepter,
The Offenders,
Jimmy McGriff,
Iggy Pop,
Scion,
John Foxx,
Whodini,
These Immortal Souls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Donny Hathaway,
Derrick May,
Peter & Gordon,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Stooges,
Basic Channel,
Pantaleimon,
Cybotron,
The Vogues,
Public Image Ltd.,
Niagra,
Grey Daturas,
Lindisfarne,
Pussy Galore,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kerri Chandler,
The American Breed,
MDC,
Bobby Sherman,
Erasure,
June Days,
Franke,
cv313,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.