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 Argentina and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mad Mike to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Peter and Kerry,
Amon Düül,
Slave,
The Gories,
Sällskapet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alice Coltrane,
Unrelated Segments,
The Toasters,
Brand Nubian,
In Retrospect,
Eric Copeland,
Dark Day,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Bar-Kays,
Fat Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
The Young Rascals,
Donald Byrd,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Althea and Donna,
Sonny Sharrock,
John Lydon,
Robert Görl,
Royal Trux,
Warren Ellis,
the Germs,
Q and Not U,
Talk Talk,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Metal Thangz,
Livin' Joy,
PIL,
Traffic Nightmare,
Erykah Badu,
The Grass Roots,
Quantec,
Parry Music,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Residents,
The Moleskins,
U.S. Maple,
Ultra Naté,
Lou Christie,
Minny Pops,
10cc,
Nico,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Victims,
Sandy B,
Morten Harket,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sister Nancy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rekid,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Womack,
Roger Hodgson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.