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 Gambia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb 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 Idris Muhammad to the punk 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jesper Dahlback,
Outsiders,
Soft Machine,
Inner City,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Alarm Clocks,
Neu!,
The Doobie Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
Toni Rubio,
Q65,
Pierre Henry,
Black Flag,
Stereo Dub,
Sparks,
Model 500,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soulsonic Force,
Absolute Body Control,
Vladislav Delay,
Alice Coltrane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
John Coltrane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Circle Jerks,
Rapeman,
Quadrant,
The Divine Comedy,
Dennis Brown,
Essential Logic,
Bluetip,
Lungfish,
Tres Demented,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Association,
Suburban Knight,
Trumans Water,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Livin' Joy,
Ultra Naté,
Smog,
Depeche Mode,
The Gories,
The Happenings,
Black Pus,
Sonic Youth,
Ornette Coleman,
Saccharine Trust,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kayak,
Ronnie Foster,
Kenny Larkin,
Lower 48,
Roxette,
Khruangbin,
Eden Ahbez,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.