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 Saudi Arabia and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 techno 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mr. Review,
Minor Threat,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eurythmics,
Kas Product,
Ituana,
Moss Icon,
The Offenders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Kinks,
Lou Christie,
Absolute Body Control,
Bauhaus,
Wally Richardson,
Minny Pops,
D'Angelo,
the Germs,
Matthew Bourne,
Vainqueur,
Clear Light,
Harry Pussy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wolf Eyes,
The Stooges,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nico,
Boredoms,
CMW,
10cc,
The Music Machine,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eve St. Jones,
Visage,
Eric Copeland,
Black Pus,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Johnny Clarke,
Prince Buster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bob Dylan,
Can,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camouflage,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
L. Decosne,
Juan Atkins,
The Raincoats,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mary Jane Girls,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sound,
The Modern Lovers,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Wake,
Neu!,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.