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 Zimbabwe and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jawbox to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
10cc,
Youth Brigade,
Cluster,
Symarip,
Negative Approach,
Agitation Free,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kurtis Blow,
Alison Limerick,
Rhythm & Sound,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
48th St. Collective,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Davy DMX,
X-Ray Spex,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rekid,
Connie Case,
Hot Snakes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
OOIOO,
Essential Logic,
Bush Tetras,
Technova,
Sight & Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
Al Stewart,
The Associates,
Inner City,
Oblivians,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Blake Baxter,
Subhumans,
The Fire Engines,
Simply Red,
Au Pairs,
The Gap Band,
Y Pants,
Ohio Players,
Wasted Youth,
Robert Görl,
Shuggie Otis,
Q and Not U,
the Slits,
Jacob Miller,
Crash Course in Science,
Donald Byrd,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Black Dice,
Tommy Roe,
Morten Harket,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Techniques,
Sexual Harrassment,
Black Flag,
David Axelrod,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soft Cell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bauhaus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.