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 Netherlands and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Vladislav Delay to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
E-Dancer,
June Days,
Lower 48,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Andrew Hill,
The Residents,
The Techniques,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Von Mondo,
Janne Schatter,
Scrapy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joyce Sims,
Rotary Connection,
Ossler,
the Sonics,
Tim Buckley,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Seeds,
Theoretical Girls,
Make Up,
Trumans Water,
Symarip,
Derrick Morgan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Television,
Pierre Henry,
Connie Case,
Bill Wells,
R.M.O.,
The Birthday Party,
Soul II Soul,
Massinfluence,
Barbara Tucker,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mo-Dettes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Suicide,
The Remains,
FM Einheit,
Popol Vuh,
Eve St. Jones,
The Monks,
Guru Guru,
Parry Music,
Anthony Braxton,
The Modern Lovers,
Nirvana,
Derrick May,
Sound Behaviour,
Ituana,
Nik Kershaw,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Neu!,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.