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 Italy and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba 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 Avey Tare to the rap 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Derrick Morgan,
Dave Gahan,
Television,
Reagan Youth,
Joensuu 1685,
U.S. Maple,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yellowson,
The Techniques,
Flamin' Groovies,
Laurel Aitken,
Cheater Slicks,
Brass Construction,
The Happenings,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gang of Four,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mission of Burma,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jacob Miller,
8 Eyed Spy,
June of 44,
Malaria!,
Iggy Pop,
The Real Kids,
World's Most,
New Age Steppers,
James White and The Blacks,
Ultra Naté,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deepchord,
The Seeds,
Hasil Adkins,
Fluxion,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Cowsills,
Average White Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amon Düül II,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Lydon,
The Music Machine,
Absolute Body Control,
Talk Talk,
Los Fastidios,
Todd Terry,
Rufus Thomas,
The Names,
The Leaves,
Vainqueur,
Letta Mbulu,
Byron Stingily,
Tears for Fears,
Pole,
Khruangbin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.