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 Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Peter & Gordon to the electroclash 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Das Ding,
Fugazi,
Icehouse,
Anthony Braxton,
kango's stein massive,
UT,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boogie Down Productions,
Delon & Dalcan,
Juan Atkins,
The American Breed,
Adolescents,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Pretty Things,
Rekid,
Fat Boys,
Skriet,
Soft Machine,
Man Parrish,
Robert Wyatt,
Accadde A,
Subhumans,
Scientists,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Thompson Twins,
Rites of Spring,
the Bar-Kays,
Leonard Cohen,
Model 500,
Wasted Youth,
LL Cool J,
Patti Smith,
The Slits,
Joensuu 1685,
Excepter,
PIL,
Black Pus,
Sonic Youth,
Bootsy Collins,
Nas,
Mars,
DNA,
Pantytec,
Nik Kershaw,
Morten Harket,
48th St. Collective,
The Cowsills,
Second Layer,
One Last Wish,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lungfish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Smog,
Au Pairs,
World's Most,
Bad Manners,
Panda Bear,
Ken Boothe,
Kas Product,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.