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 Zimbabwe and from Seoul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Piero Umiliani to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Roy Ayers,
The J.B.'s,
Delon & Dalcan,
Masters at Work,
Thee Headcoats,
Robert Görl,
Nik Kershaw,
Eric Dolphy,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobby Womack,
DNA,
Jesper Dahlback,
Yazoo,
Lou Christie,
Sex Pistols,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Groovy Waters,
Negative Approach,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed,
Stockholm Monsters,
Drexciya,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Todd Rundgren,
Traffic Nightmare,
New Order,
Agitation Free,
The Leaves,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Neon Judgement,
The Black Dice,
Harmonia,
Essential Logic,
Scrapy,
The Dead C,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pulsallama,
Aswad,
Kevin Saunderson,
Robert Wyatt,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soulsonic Force,
Slick Rick,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Trumans Water,
Blancmange,
Leonard Cohen,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tears for Fears,
The Standells,
Hoover,
Sonny Sharrock,
June of 44,
Sonic Youth,
Judy Mowatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Model 500,
Ponytail,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.