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 Pakistan and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mary Jane Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Todd Terry,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Invisible,
David McCallum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Al Stewart,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lightning Bolt,
Vainqueur,
The Stooges,
Connie Case,
The Motions,
The Monks,
Bootsy Collins,
Eurythmics,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare,
The Red Krayola,
Glenn Branca,
Franke,
Deepchord,
Brand Nubian,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Lydon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Flash Fearless,
The Divine Comedy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Panda Bear,
Delta 5,
Q65,
Yusef Lateef,
The United States of America,
These Immortal Souls,
The Names,
Junior Murvin,
Ludus,
the Germs,
Brass Construction,
Monks,
Reagan Youth,
The Kinks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ituana,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Derrick May,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Los Fastidios,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Zeros,
The Slits,
Roy Ayers,
The Walker Brothers,
Prince Buster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.