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 Moldova 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare 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 Ossler to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Ludus,
Dark Day,
Hashim,
Flipper,
Yazoo,
Pulsallama,
Dave Gahan,
Depeche Mode,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Human League,
Mission of Burma,
Harmonia,
The Toasters,
The Doors,
Tubeway Army,
Nico,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Smooth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
A Certain Ratio,
The Count Five,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
KRS-One,
Scrapy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ken Boothe,
Slave,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sugar Minott,
Schoolly D,
Soft Machine,
Gregory Isaacs,
Patti Smith,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marc Almond,
Rites of Spring,
Eric Copeland,
Ponytail,
The Skatalites,
Todd Rundgren,
Hardrive,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Brand Nubian,
Au Pairs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gabor Szabo,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Moleskins,
Pagans,
Fat Boys,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
X-102,
The Zeros,
Erykah Badu,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.