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 Guyana and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Nick Fraelich to the jazz 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ponytail,
Robert Hood,
Judy Mowatt,
Eddi Front,
cv313,
Matthew Halsall,
Sonic Youth,
The Moleskins,
One Last Wish,
Mr. Review,
Aswad,
Essential Logic,
Los Fastidios,
Blancmange,
Funky Four + One,
Idris Muhammad,
Cymande,
Hoover,
Scientists,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Smiths,
Accadde A,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yusef Lateef,
The Evens,
Eric Copeland,
Joy Division,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Michelle Simonal,
The Grass Roots,
Dennis Brown,
Jeff Mills,
Lungfish,
Rapeman,
Quantec,
Joensuu 1685,
48th St. Collective,
X-101,
The Offenders,
Icehouse,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bill Near,
Man Parrish,
Crash Course in Science,
Q65,
Lou Christie,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Boogie Down Productions,
DNA,
World's Most,
Audionom,
PIL,
Flash Fearless,
Freddie Wadling,
DJ Style,
Alphaville,
Bobby Byrd,
The Seeds,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.