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 Uganda and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 harpsichord 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 U.S. Maple to the rock 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
48th St. Collective,
The Invisible,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Clear Light,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roger Hodgson,
Moss Icon,
Byron Stingily,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lakeside,
Terrestrial Tones,
Robert Hood,
Quadrant,
Bronski Beat,
Bootsy Collins,
Bang On A Can,
the Soft Cell,
Main Source,
The Gun Club,
Amazonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nas,
Loose Ends,
Joensuu 1685,
Agitation Free,
Gang Gang Dance,
Josef K,
The Last Poets,
Liliput,
The Leaves,
The J.B.'s,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soul II Soul,
Japan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crime,
Tom Boy,
The Monochrome Set,
Stereo Dub,
David Axelrod,
Talk Talk,
The Raincoats,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dorothy Ashby,
Popol Vuh,
One Last Wish,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Masters at Work,
Dual Sessions,
The Fortunes,
Cheater Slicks,
the Association,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
ABBA,
The United States of America,
John Cale,
Amon Düül II,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.