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 France and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 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 Model 500 to the dance 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Susan Cadogan,
Don Cherry,
Jeff Mills,
John Coltrane,
The American Breed,
Maurizio,
Ken Boothe,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
The Cramps,
Arthur Verocai,
Blossom Toes,
Funky Four + One,
The Star Department,
Brand Nubian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Panda Bear,
the Bar-Kays,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rites of Spring,
Roxy Music,
Fear,
Eden Ahbez,
The Doors,
Flash Fearless,
Liliput,
Alice Coltrane,
The Slits,
James White and The Blacks,
The J.B.'s,
Aural Exciters,
Lou Reed,
Smog,
Bobby Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
The Move,
Gang Gang Dance,
Adolescents,
The Blackbyrds,
Swell Maps,
Fela Kuti,
The Modern Lovers,
Massinfluence,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Faraquet,
Terry Callier,
Gerry Rafferty,
Half Japanese,
Trumans Water,
Skarface,
Davy DMX,
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.