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 Cameroon and from Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba 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 Scion to the techno 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 Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
June of 44,
The Saints,
X-Ray Spex,
Guru Guru,
Charles Mingus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Leonard Cohen,
Banda Bassotti,
This Heat,
Mandrill,
The Young Rascals,
48th St. Collective,
Godley & Creme,
David Bowie,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kas Product,
Little Man,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dave Gahan,
Accadde A,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Index,
Susan Cadogan,
Wings,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Doors,
ABC,
Eve St. Jones,
Gabor Szabo,
The United States of America,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bill Wells,
Sun Ra,
The Invisible,
John Holt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Althea and Donna,
Blake Baxter,
The Motions,
Index,
the Sonics,
Ten City,
Crooked Eye,
The Fire Engines,
Iggy Pop,
Eric Dolphy,
Hoover,
Rites of Spring,
Reuben Wilson,
Visage,
Theoretical Girls,
Excepter,
Aswad,
Bobby Sherman,
Todd Rundgren,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sonny Sharrock,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.