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 Portugal and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Calgary.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kerri Chandler to the disco 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minor Threat,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lower 48,
Reuben Wilson,
Quando Quango,
Donny Hathaway,
Organ,
The Fugs,
Oblivians,
The Black Dice,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Steve Hackett,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bronski Beat,
the Association,
OOIOO,
Mandrill,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Toasters,
Morten Harket,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Albert Ayler,
Sixth Finger,
Althea and Donna,
F. McDonald,
Massinfluence,
Kevin Saunderson,
Young Marble Giants,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Half Japanese,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Smiths,
Grauzone,
Sex Pistols,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Max Romeo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hardrive,
The Martian,
Ralphi Rosario,
Junior Murvin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cluster,
Robert Wyatt,
The Slits,
The Gories,
David Axelrod,
Slave,
Bootsy Collins,
Nico,
A Certain Ratio,
Ponytail,
48th St. Collective,
Eve St. Jones,
Fugazi,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.