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 New Zealand and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro 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 Fela Kuti to the jazz 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Eric Copeland,
Ken Boothe,
Niagra,
OOIOO,
Cluster,
Alison Limerick,
Maurizio,
Amon Düül II,
Swell Maps,
Dave Gahan,
Parry Music,
Janne Schatter,
The Mojo Men,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
David McCallum,
Bauhaus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Kinks,
The Gladiators,
Spandau Ballet,
Model 500,
The Fuzztones,
The Invisible,
The Doobie Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
The Selecter,
Marvin Gaye,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Smoke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The New Christs,
Underground Resistance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blossom Toes,
Jeff Mills,
The J.B.'s,
ABBA,
AZ,
Rosa Yemen,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Grauzone,
Black Sheep,
Section 25,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Derrick May,
Los Fastidios,
Funkadelic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pussy Galore,
Joey Negro,
Fatback Band,
Bobby Womack,
Joe Smooth,
The United States of America,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dual Sessions,
Simply Red,
Warsaw,
Donny Hathaway,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.