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 Paraguay and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Von Mondo to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Brothers Johnson,
Skarface,
E-Dancer,
The Invisible,
Delon & Dalcan,
Matthew Halsall,
The Offenders,
The Tremeloes,
Skaos,
Crispian St. Peters,
Basic Channel,
The Slackers,
China Crisis,
Minny Pops,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fortunes,
Stetsasonic,
John Coltrane,
Soft Machine,
Lakeside,
Jeru the Damaja,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
FM Einheit,
Adolescents,
Sun Ra,
The Saints,
Rekid,
Maleditus Sound,
Zapp,
The Searchers,
Sixth Finger,
Massinfluence,
Slick Rick,
The Neon Judgement,
Davy DMX,
Minutemen,
Sällskapet,
Royal Trux,
Grauzone,
Sugar Minott,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Leaves,
Robert Görl,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arcadia,
Pantaleimon,
The Standells,
Marmalade,
KRS-One,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Chris & Cosey,
Altered Images,
Flamin' Groovies,
Funkadelic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Remains,
Rufus Thomas,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.