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 Algeria and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Cairo.
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 synthesizer 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 Michelle Simonal to the rock 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Babytalk,
the Normal,
Mantronix,
T. Rex,
Marmalade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sixth Finger,
The Slackers,
Albert Ayler,
The Victims,
the Association,
Dennis Brown,
Marc Almond,
Sarah Menescal,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Chrome,
The Gladiators,
Aswad,
The Angels of Light,
Magma,
Ludus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Matthew Halsall,
Stiv Bators,
Cybotron,
ABBA,
Rakim,
New Age Steppers,
The J.B.'s,
Flamin' Groovies,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fuzztones,
David Axelrod,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Copeland,
China Crisis,
The Toasters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Tremeloes,
Amon Düül II,
Duran Duran,
Pantytec,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Minny Pops,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Zero Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Dead Boys,
Magazine,
Rufus Thomas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Smiths,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ice-T,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fluxion,
Kas Product,
Joey Negro,
Dark Day,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Human League,
Bronski Beat,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.