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 Uzbekistan and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 The J.B.'s to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Crash Course in Science,
Joy Division,
Ultimate Spinach,
Youth Brigade,
Nico,
Neil Young,
Flipper,
Duran Duran,
Oblivians,
Ten City,
The Zeros,
Brothers Johnson,
Popol Vuh,
Qualms,
CMW,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Residents,
Au Pairs,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Fire Engines,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gong,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marvin Gaye,
Arcadia,
The Busters,
Kayak,
Masters at Work,
Nik Kershaw,
Television Personalities,
Black Moon,
Index,
The Seeds,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cecil Taylor,
The Evens,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Moody Blues,
Yaz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang of Four,
Stockholm Monsters,
Janne Schatter,
Pole,
Black Flag,
The Black Dice,
Mark Hollis,
John Holt,
Letta Mbulu,
Wings,
The Flesh Eaters,
Black Bananas,
Von Mondo,
The Knickerbockers,
Pussy Galore,
Dual Sessions,
John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Happenings,
Marshall Jefferson,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.