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 Iran and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 MC5 to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Marvin Gaye,
Brand Nubian,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rakim,
The Techniques,
Kerrie Biddell,
Goldenarms,
Flipper,
Danielle Patucci,
Agitation Free,
Anthony Braxton,
Crime,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Monks,
Alphaville,
Animal Collective,
Al Stewart,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fire Engines,
Dark Day,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Divine Comedy,
48th St. Collective,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Buckinghams,
Morten Harket,
Reuben Wilson,
The Trojans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Silicon Teens,
Blossom Toes,
Mo-Dettes,
Traffic Nightmare,
John Coltrane,
Slick Rick,
The Human League,
Panda Bear,
The Velvet Underground,
John Lydon,
Swans,
Charles Mingus,
Nico,
Drexciya,
Sonic Youth,
MDC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxy Music,
Television Personalities,
EPMD,
Marc Almond,
Lucky Dragons,
Blake Baxter,
Radiopuhelimet,
AZ,
Henry Cow,
the Human League,
Neu!,
The Martian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.