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 Croatia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Aswad,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
Banda Bassotti,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rites of Spring,
the Association,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Bar-Kays,
Absolute Body Control,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Toni Rubio,
Ituana,
The Raincoats,
Mark Hollis,
The Durutti Column,
Aloha Tigers,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed,
Joyce Sims,
Ken Boothe,
Thompson Twins,
Donald Byrd,
Yellowson,
Bootsy Collins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Faraquet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Talk Talk,
The Remains,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amon Düül,
Eric Dolphy,
Half Japanese,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The J.B.'s,
The Trojans,
Amazonics,
The Searchers,
Sight & Sound,
Crime,
Bluetip,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers,
Harmonia,
The Techniques,
Rufus Thomas,
Fatback Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Minor Threat,
Malaria!,
The Smoke,
ABC,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Danielle Patucci,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Walker Brothers,
Roxette,
Todd Terry,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.