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 Iraq and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum 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 Rotary Connection to the rock 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a B.T. Express record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Scan 7,
The Raincoats,
a-ha,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kerrie Biddell,
Moss Icon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alice Coltrane,
Kerri Chandler,
Vainqueur,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hashim,
Mars,
ABC,
Joy Division,
Moebius,
Roxy Music,
Fela Kuti,
Swans,
In Retrospect,
The Beau Brummels,
The Neon Judgement,
Angry Samoans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
A Certain Ratio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Warsaw,
Gang of Four,
Carl Craig,
FM Einheit,
Matthew Bourne,
Cluster,
Graham Central Station,
Judy Mowatt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultra Naté,
Terrestrial Tones,
Country Teasers,
Pole,
Youth Brigade,
Ponytail,
Bill Wells,
Idris Muhammad,
Silicon Teens,
The Gladiators,
Khruangbin,
D'Angelo,
The Remains,
Gregory Isaacs,
UT,
Banda Bassotti,
Heaven 17,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Charles Mingus,
Moby Grape,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marine Girls,
PIL,
Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.