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 Qatar and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin 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 PIL to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Dorothy Ashby,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dave Gahan,
Kas Product,
Unrelated Segments,
The Seeds,
The Smoke,
U.S. Maple,
Mary Jane Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Heaven 17,
Bobby Sherman,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Metal Thangz,
Funky Four + One,
John Lydon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Moby Grape,
ABBA,
The Beau Brummels,
E-Dancer,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ronan,
Neil Young,
Delta 5,
Swell Maps,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Rundgren,
Depeche Mode,
Janne Schatter,
Saccharine Trust,
Newcleus,
John Holt,
This Heat,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Con Funk Shun,
Rod Modell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scientists,
Johnny Clarke,
Yazoo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Royal Trux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minor Threat,
Sam Rivers,
Scion,
The Walker Brothers,
Spoonie Gee,
Letta Mbulu,
The Offenders,
Connie Case,
Mandrill,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.