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 Nicaragua and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Kinks,
The Five Americans,
T. Rex,
Neil Young,
The Gories,
The Busters,
Spoonie Gee,
Darondo,
Reuben Wilson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Harpers Bizarre,
Crime,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Toasters,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Misunderstood,
The Moody Blues,
Metal Thangz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scion,
Monks,
The Techniques,
Faust,
Marc Almond,
Funkadelic,
Circle Jerks,
FM Einheit,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roxy Music,
Fear,
Kenny Larkin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sugar Minott,
Visage,
Electric Light Orchestra,
This Heat,
Alphaville,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rakim,
Warren Ellis,
Jandek,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marine Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Jeru the Damaja,
Desert Stars,
John Foxx,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nik Kershaw,
Tim Buckley,
The Happenings,
Robert Görl,
Aural Exciters,
Prince Buster,
Sixth Finger,
Gang of Four,
Mantronix,
Bobby Womack,
Sight & Sound,
Joensuu 1685,
Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy.
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.