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 San Marino and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Joe Smooth to the electroclash 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gun Club,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fat Boys,
Japan,
the Slits,
The Stooges,
Supertramp,
The Index,
Von Mondo,
Juan Atkins,
Connie Case,
Gang Green,
Scratch Acid,
Los Fastidios,
The Fortunes,
Judy Mowatt,
Model 500,
The Doors,
Rapeman,
Nico,
Erykah Badu,
Mary Jane Girls,
Archie Shepp,
The Knickerbockers,
Lucky Dragons,
Lalo Schifrin,
Arab on Radar,
The Evens,
Skriet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Electric Prunes,
Grauzone,
Fear,
Davy DMX,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sight & Sound,
Swans,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Leaves,
Sam Rivers,
Hot Snakes,
Sugar Minott,
Grey Daturas,
Soulsonic Force,
Neu!,
Quantec,
Q65,
KRS-One,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jacob Miller,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Panda Bear,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Desert Stars,
The Standells,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sex Pistols,
Bill Near,
Drexciya,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.