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 Uganda and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Babytalk to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Sight & Sound,
The Monochrome Set,
Ludus,
The Martian,
Danielle Patucci,
The Motions,
Rekid,
Don Cherry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Banda Bassotti,
Kerri Chandler,
Franke,
Skriet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eric Copeland,
DNA,
The Litter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roxy Music,
Pantytec,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bobby Sherman,
Babytalk,
The Pretty Things,
The Five Americans,
MDC,
Accadde A,
10cc,
Tommy Roe,
Scratch Acid,
Scan 7,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Panda Bear,
Mo-Dettes,
Vainqueur,
Sun City Girls,
Cameo,
Hot Snakes,
Idris Muhammad,
Electric Prunes,
the Soft Cell,
Erasure,
Cecil Taylor,
Derrick May,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Thompson Twins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bad Manners,
Sex Pistols,
The Cowsills,
Radio Birdman,
PIL,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lyres,
Rapeman,
Gang Gang Dance,
Smog,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.