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 Cape Verde and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Ultimate Spinach to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wasted Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
Hasil Adkins,
Fat Boys,
Trumans Water,
Fugazi,
Urselle,
Faraquet,
Infiniti,
Funky Four + One,
Black Sheep,
The Move,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marmalade,
Television Personalities,
Arab on Radar,
Lalo Schifrin,
Smog,
The Tremeloes,
The Invisible,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Count Five,
Model 500,
Faust,
Rakim,
Bobby Womack,
Derrick May,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Audionom,
Groovy Waters,
Prince Buster,
Josef K,
Chris & Cosey,
the Normal,
Roxy Music,
Public Enemy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joensuu 1685,
Gabor Szabo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Con Funk Shun,
Pere Ubu,
Malaria!,
Minor Threat,
Grey Daturas,
Al Stewart,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nick Fraelich,
UT,
New Age Steppers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Charles Mingus,
Excepter,
Gichy Dan,
The Doors,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.