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 Saudi Arabia and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pole to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
The Grass Roots,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dual Sessions,
the Human League,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oblivians,
Roger Hodgson,
Bush Tetras,
Byron Stingily,
Interpol,
Rufus Thomas,
the Bar-Kays,
The Cramps,
Bobby Sherman,
Swell Maps,
Juan Atkins,
The Saints,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Amon Düül II,
Erasure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Grey Daturas,
Severed Heads,
Charles Mingus,
Patti Smith,
Moss Icon,
Ronan,
Brothers Johnson,
Donny Hathaway,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mr. Review,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Niagra,
Bad Manners,
Chrome,
Steve Hackett,
Faraquet,
ABBA,
Slick Rick,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Das Ding,
Ken Boothe,
The Motions,
The Raincoats,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Supertramp,
Neu!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gabor Szabo,
Curtis Mayfield,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Star Department,
The Fall,
Oneida,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eden Ahbez,
Yusef Lateef,
John Holt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.