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 Vietnam and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 marimba 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rapeman,
The Durutti Column,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Carl Craig,
Dual Sessions,
Minny Pops,
The Count Five,
The United States of America,
Graham Central Station,
Sam Rivers,
Tears for Fears,
Gregory Isaacs,
Severed Heads,
Basic Channel,
David Bowie,
Throbbing Gristle,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DJ Style,
Cecil Taylor,
Banda Bassotti,
John Cale,
Chris Corsano,
T.S.O.L.,
Swell Maps,
The Litter,
Country Teasers,
Pole,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Black Sheep,
The Music Machine,
Masters at Work,
Con Funk Shun,
Kaleidoscope,
48th St. Collective,
The Happenings,
The Real Kids,
Fad Gadget,
Eddi Front,
Jerry's Kids,
Chris & Cosey,
Colin Newman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bluetip,
Althea and Donna,
E-Dancer,
Glambeats Corp.,
Todd Rundgren,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DJ Sneak,
Max Romeo,
Lightning Bolt,
Tubeway Army,
The Dave Clark Five,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
ABBA,
Kayak,
The Techniques,
Eric Dolphy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.