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 Benin 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 Kool Moe Dee to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
F. McDonald,
Mandrill,
Drexciya,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Finger,
Cymande,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hashim,
Wire,
Schoolly D,
Rekid,
Henry Cow,
Smog,
Main Source,
John Lydon,
Eli Mardock,
The Techniques,
Audionom,
Quadrant,
Chris Corsano,
Japan,
Simply Red,
H. Thieme,
Mark Hollis,
Eddi Front,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Y Pants,
Black Pus,
Dave Gahan,
The Slackers,
Hardrive,
Bootsy Collins,
The Remains,
10cc,
This Heat,
The J.B.'s,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Piero Umiliani,
48th St. Collective,
Fela Kuti,
The Wake,
Prince Buster,
Gang Starr,
Quantec,
The Standells,
Cybotron,
Yaz,
Wally Richardson,
John Holt,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dark Day,
Underground Resistance,
The Names,
the Human League,
Camberwell Now,
The Gories,
Organ,
Tom Boy,
Average White Band,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.