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 Kyrgyzstan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin 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 Don Cherry to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Silicon Teens,
Ultra Naté,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Public Image Ltd.,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Motions,
Ronnie Foster,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joensuu 1685,
The Smiths,
Susan Cadogan,
The Blues Magoos,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Essential Logic,
Blancmange,
Nirvana,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Q65,
The Angels of Light,
Archie Shepp,
Simply Red,
Cameo,
Neil Young,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Derrick May,
Soul Sonic Force,
Con Funk Shun,
Unrelated Segments,
Khruangbin,
Lucky Dragons,
Trumans Water,
The Saints,
Funky Four + One,
Robert Görl,
F. McDonald,
Gong,
Crooked Eye,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stereo Dub,
Reuben Wilson,
Buzzcocks,
Black Bananas,
LL Cool J,
Lower 48,
Faraquet,
Rites of Spring,
Iggy Pop,
Au Pairs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Todd Rundgren,
New Order,
Quando Quango,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Sonics,
Sex Pistols,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.