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 Tajikistan and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Carl Craig to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Public Image Ltd.,
CMW,
Aswad,
Jimmy McGriff,
This Heat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oblivians,
Marc Almond,
Bush Tetras,
Joe Finger,
Bad Manners,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Dirtbombs,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rod Modell,
Derrick May,
Khruangbin,
New Order,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fuzztones,
Wire,
Banda Bassotti,
Angry Samoans,
Newcleus,
The Stooges,
Quando Quango,
Q and Not U,
Sight & Sound,
the Bar-Kays,
Avey Tare,
Con Funk Shun,
Talk Talk,
Niagra,
Eddi Front,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sun Ra,
Intrusion,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Franke,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ossler,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Barracudas,
Nirvana,
The Names,
The Victims,
Nick Fraelich,
Nas,
Isaac Hayes,
the Germs,
Lucky Dragons,
the Association,
The Happenings,
X-Ray Spex,
Second Layer,
Aural Exciters,
Lindisfarne,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.