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 Slovakia and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Maleditus Sound,
Al Stewart,
Letta Mbulu,
Danielle Patucci,
Anthony Braxton,
The Knickerbockers,
Gong,
Main Source,
The Barracudas,
Max Romeo,
The Skatalites,
The Smiths,
The Litter,
Alton Ellis,
Brick,
Tres Demented,
Ken Boothe,
Qualms,
Eurythmics,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eden Ahbez,
Erasure,
Vladislav Delay,
David Axelrod,
Deakin,
Section 25,
Quando Quango,
Gang of Four,
Sun City Girls,
Sällskapet,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sound Behaviour,
Bizarre Inc.,
Los Fastidios,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Clear Light,
the Bar-Kays,
X-102,
The Dead C,
The Sound,
Suicide,
Brass Construction,
The Velvet Underground,
Banda Bassotti,
The Zeros,
Henry Cow,
Severed Heads,
The Tremeloes,
Moebius,
Camouflage,
Crash Course in Science,
Roger Hodgson,
The Selecter,
Ten City,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wolf Eyes,
Quantec,
Marmalade,
The Fire Engines,
Tears for Fears,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.