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 Israel and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the grime 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson 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?
Robert Wyatt,
The Stooges,
The Buckinghams,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
A Certain Ratio,
L. Decosne,
Joe Smooth,
Tres Demented,
The United States of America,
The Move,
June Days,
H. Thieme,
Morten Harket,
Marvin Gaye,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Copeland,
Yaz,
Harry Pussy,
R.M.O.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Prince Buster,
Desert Stars,
Graham Central Station,
Darondo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Velvet Underground,
Lower 48,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jacob Miller,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Chris & Cosey,
Lalo Schifrin,
Qualms,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bronski Beat,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DNA,
The Wake,
China Crisis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minnie Riperton,
Jacques Brel,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dual Sessions,
Niagra,
Ossler,
EPMD,
Maleditus Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
Eurythmics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minor Threat,
Circle Jerks,
Y Pants,
Sonny Sharrock,
Los Fastidios,
Faraquet,
MC5,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.