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 Montenegro and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare 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 Brand Nubian to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Connie Case,
Newcleus,
Black Pus,
Lindisfarne,
Robert Wyatt,
The Walker Brothers,
Schoolly D,
Unrelated Segments,
Aloha Tigers,
Khruangbin,
The Trojans,
Make Up,
Nils Olav,
Wally Richardson,
Television,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
Vladislav Delay,
Urselle,
Erasure,
Danielle Patucci,
Glenn Branca,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bootsy Collins,
The Doobie Brothers,
Index,
Arcadia,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radio Birdman,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nirvana,
Mandrill,
Swans,
Deakin,
Scientists,
Letta Mbulu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Evens,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Alarm Clocks,
EPMD,
Con Funk Shun,
L. Decosne,
The Smoke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
FM Einheit,
The Seeds,
Average White Band,
Interpol,
Jesper Dahlback,
Al Stewart,
The Dead C,
the Human League,
Kas Product,
The Remains,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.