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 Colombia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Isaac Hayes to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soft Machine,
Can,
Icehouse,
Wings,
China Crisis,
Peter & Gordon,
Barry Ungar,
a-ha,
Chrome,
Stereo Dub,
Moby Grape,
Anthony Braxton,
Absolute Body Control,
Index,
Minutemen,
David Bowie,
Niagra,
Sugar Minott,
Michelle Simonal,
Main Source,
Lalann,
The Dave Clark Five,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Angels of Light,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agent Orange,
Idris Muhammad,
Kurtis Blow,
Roxy Music,
Panda Bear,
Erasure,
Lou Reed,
Boogie Down Productions,
Judy Mowatt,
Harry Pussy,
Half Japanese,
Alton Ellis,
Cybotron,
T.S.O.L.,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tim Buckley,
Bang On A Can,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eli Mardock,
MDC,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Byron Stingily,
Pantaleimon,
Minny Pops,
The Flesh Eaters,
Accadde A,
The Slackers,
The Velvet Underground,
Skarface,
Brass Construction,
Amon Düül,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fatback Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.