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 Mongolia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Connie Case to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Magma,
Wasted Youth,
Ten City,
These Immortal Souls,
Tom Boy,
Pierre Henry,
The Motions,
Jawbox,
The Pretty Things,
Rosa Yemen,
Gichy Dan,
Make Up,
Deepchord,
Juan Atkins,
X-Ray Spex,
Wally Richardson,
The Star Department,
Judy Mowatt,
Soulsonic Force,
The Evens,
The Fall,
Susan Cadogan,
Tears for Fears,
Robert Wyatt,
Stiv Bators,
LL Cool J,
Roxette,
Reagan Youth,
Black Pus,
Rufus Thomas,
Symarip,
Freddie Wadling,
JFA,
Sällskapet,
Sparks,
Barbara Tucker,
John Lydon,
Shoche,
Toni Rubio,
The Fugs,
Eric Dolphy,
The Offenders,
Brass Construction,
Second Layer,
Au Pairs,
Minnie Riperton,
K-Klass,
Bobby Sherman,
The Angels of Light,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Darondo,
Bauhaus,
Rekid,
DJ Sneak,
The Real Kids,
Excepter,
Brand Nubian,
Mr. Review,
Robert Görl,
The Fire Engines,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.