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 Kazakhstan and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Lou Reed 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 Gang Starr to the grunge 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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
The Happenings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Carl Craig,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fad Gadget,
The Knickerbockers,
The Beau Brummels,
Camouflage,
Eurythmics,
Scott Walker,
Kerrie Biddell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pantaleimon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ronan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oblivians,
cv313,
Lower 48,
Eden Ahbez,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
The Stooges,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Pus,
Bobby Sherman,
Bronski Beat,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Cale,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rotary Connection,
Delta 5,
Donny Hathaway,
June Days,
Rapeman,
Trumans Water,
Bizarre Inc.,
Visage,
The Motions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tomorrow,
The Human League,
The Remains,
Theoretical Girls,
Deepchord,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tears for Fears,
The Sonics,
Leonard Cohen,
Basic Channel,
Tim Buckley,
The Blues Magoos,
Harpers Bizarre,
Man Parrish,
Khruangbin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.