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 Japan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soul Sonic Force to the punk 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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kenny Larkin,
The Slackers,
Junior Murvin,
The Busters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lalann,
Erykah Badu,
The Star Department,
The Monochrome Set,
Q65,
Matthew Bourne,
Kayak,
Pagans,
Kas Product,
Black Flag,
The Tremeloes,
Los Fastidios,
The Five Americans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Television Personalities,
Mandrill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Goldenarms,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Trumans Water,
Peter & Gordon,
Steve Hackett,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yellowson,
Massinfluence,
Michelle Simonal,
The Golliwogs,
The Music Machine,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bush Tetras,
Sound Behaviour,
Ponytail,
Camberwell Now,
Flamin' Groovies,
Khruangbin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun City Girls,
Joe Smooth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Black Bananas,
Derrick Morgan,
JFA,
Monolake,
Faraquet,
The Associates,
Lungfish,
KRS-One,
E-Dancer,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gories,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.