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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Portland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Main Source,
Masters at Work,
Sällskapet,
Thee Headcoats,
H. Thieme,
Monks,
Lalann,
Hasil Adkins,
Hardrive,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sun Ra,
Alison Limerick,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Coltrane,
Tim Buckley,
Q and Not U,
Spoonie Gee,
Deepchord,
R.M.O.,
Cal Tjader,
Average White Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fall,
Aural Exciters,
Reagan Youth,
The Divine Comedy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Thompson Twins,
Ituana,
the Association,
Black Pus,
Arcadia,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gap Band,
Smog,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gang Green,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cybotron,
Robert Hood,
Mark Hollis,
Ronnie Foster,
Al Stewart,
The Velvet Underground,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deadbeat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Sheep,
The Young Rascals,
Depeche Mode,
Peter & Gordon,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.