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 Guinea and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cybotron to the rap 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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
The Neon Judgement,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Television,
OOIOO,
Interpol,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Idris Muhammad,
Boredoms,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
These Immortal Souls,
Quantec,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Womack,
Porter Ricks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Section 25,
Anthony Braxton,
Eddi Front,
Curtis Mayfield,
Graham Central Station,
Eurythmics,
Agitation Free,
The Zeros,
Lungfish,
Magma,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Can,
The Walker Brothers,
Lyres,
Joe Finger,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roger Hodgson,
Newcleus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Aswad,
Sister Nancy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scott Walker,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Morten Harket,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
Erykah Badu,
Moss Icon,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Blossom Toes,
Mad Mike,
Minutemen,
The Electric Prunes,
Moby Grape,
ABC,
Pharoah Sanders,
Aloha Tigers,
UT,
The Sonics,
Throbbing Gristle,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.