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 Kosovo and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dennis Brown to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T. Rex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Bronski Beat,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Moon,
Black Sheep,
Outsiders,
It's A Beautiful Day,
kango's stein massive,
Crispy Ambulance,
Intrusion,
Ten City,
The Kinks,
Iggy Pop,
Whodini,
Dark Day,
Bob Dylan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rod Modell,
Guru Guru,
Can,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skaos,
Morten Harket,
La Düsseldorf,
Wolf Eyes,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mojo Men,
a-ha,
Fela Kuti,
Royal Trux,
Juan Atkins,
Subhumans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stetsasonic,
Eric Dolphy,
Slave,
Cybotron,
Aloha Tigers,
the Bar-Kays,
Fugazi,
Sonny Sharrock,
U.S. Maple,
The Litter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Swans,
The Barracudas,
Gichy Dan,
Vladislav Delay,
Sällskapet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Brothers Johnson,
In Retrospect,
DNA,
Chris & Cosey,
the Slits,
Patti Smith,
Hardrive,
The Cowsills,
The Doobie Brothers,
Unrelated Segments,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.