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 Spain and from Columbus.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Althea and Donna to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skarface,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Remains,
Electric Prunes,
Lou Christie,
Sight & Sound,
Rites of Spring,
Terry Callier,
Sällskapet,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pantytec,
Nick Fraelich,
Qualms,
Delta 5,
Theoretical Girls,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flash Fearless,
Crispian St. Peters,
Suicide,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gories,
Barrington Levy,
Vladislav Delay,
The Black Dice,
Spoonie Gee,
Alphaville,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DNA,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nirvana,
Jacques Brel,
Bobby Sherman,
Tom Boy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Janne Schatter,
The Knickerbockers,
Boredoms,
Juan Atkins,
D'Angelo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Essential Logic,
Man Eating Sloth,
Schoolly D,
Judy Mowatt,
Nas,
Underground Resistance,
Kenny Larkin,
Sonny Sharrock,
Q and Not U,
Country Teasers,
Jerry's Kids,
Frankie Knuckles,
La Düsseldorf,
Y Pants,
Soft Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.