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 Sri Lanka and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the electroclash 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Dave Gahan,
10cc,
Panda Bear,
Marc Almond,
Anakelly,
David Bowie,
Alice Coltrane,
Iggy Pop,
Kurtis Blow,
F. McDonald,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hashim,
Yaz,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Doors,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mr. Review,
Jeru the Damaja,
Simply Red,
Shoche,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Remains,
The Evens,
Althea and Donna,
Marvin Gaye,
The Blues Magoos,
Absolute Body Control,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Invisible,
Deakin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Moby Grape,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Amon Düül II,
Grandmaster Flash,
Chrome,
Slave,
Leonard Cohen,
Groovy Waters,
Moebius,
Erykah Badu,
Little Man,
The Associates,
Godley & Creme,
Crispy Ambulance,
D'Angelo,
Joe Finger,
Rhythm & Sound,
Amon Düül,
Lungfish,
John Cale,
The Human League,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.