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 Kyrgyzstan and from Lille.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Curtis Mayfield to the rap 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Almond,
Soul Sonic Force,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ossler,
Glambeats Corp.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Donny Hathaway,
Kayak,
Eyeless In Gaza,
David Bowie,
The Gap Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soft Cell,
Erykah Badu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Aural Exciters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nico,
Lakeside,
The Fall,
Swans,
Kurtis Blow,
Khruangbin,
Pantaleimon,
Amazonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Malaria!,
Arcadia,
Erasure,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joyce Sims,
Faust,
Danielle Patucci,
Roxy Music,
Bob Dylan,
Deadbeat,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Moody Blues,
L. Decosne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Subhumans,
Leonard Cohen,
Mars,
Stetsasonic,
Moss Icon,
JFA,
Bluetip,
Rotary Connection,
Mr. Review,
Youth Brigade,
Eric Dolphy,
Delta 5,
Letta Mbulu,
Section 25,
Technova,
kango's stein massive,
Soul II Soul,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.