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 Georgia and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Calgary.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the grunge 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 The Golliwogs. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Yusef Lateef,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacob Miller,
Sugar Minott,
Eddi Front,
Roxy Music,
Q and Not U,
Michelle Simonal,
A Certain Ratio,
The Divine Comedy,
John Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
Black Bananas,
U.S. Maple,
Popol Vuh,
Roy Ayers,
The Gladiators,
Man Parrish,
Sarah Menescal,
The Busters,
Monks,
Althea and Donna,
Rod Modell,
The Electric Prunes,
China Crisis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Josef K,
Accadde A,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Basic Channel,
Janne Schatter,
EPMD,
Vladislav Delay,
Soul II Soul,
Newcleus,
Kayak,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pylon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
a-ha,
The Move,
The Barracudas,
Japan,
Television,
Alton Ellis,
B.T. Express,
The Cramps,
Joyce Sims,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jeff Lynne,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Visage,
the Human League,
Dead Boys,
Dave Gahan,
The Slackers,
Trumans Water,
The Cowsills,
Leonard Cohen,
Guru Guru,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.