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 Afghanistan and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sun Ra Arkestra 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Vladislav Delay,
June Days,
The Tremeloes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
FM Einheit,
X-102,
Gang Starr,
The Names,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jacob Miller,
Basic Channel,
Brothers Johnson,
Hardrive,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless,
the Human League,
ABBA,
Matthew Bourne,
One Last Wish,
The Star Department,
Iggy Pop,
kango's stein massive,
Youth Brigade,
CMW,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fort Wilson Riot,
New York Dolls,
Aswad,
Audionom,
Excepter,
Marmalade,
The Move,
T.S.O.L.,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Susan Cadogan,
Neil Young,
The Toasters,
Camberwell Now,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nils Olav,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Wake,
La Düsseldorf,
Cybotron,
The Gap Band,
Public Enemy,
Nick Fraelich,
Dual Sessions,
The Fuzztones,
Freddie Wadling,
The Cowsills,
Bobby Sherman,
The Walker Brothers,
R.M.O.,
Neu!,
Con Funk Shun,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.