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 Australia and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 J.B.'s to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Pantytec,
Harpers Bizarre,
Carl Craig,
Mary Jane Girls,
Clear Light,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erasure,
Rosa Yemen,
Don Cherry,
The Misunderstood,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lucky Dragons,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jacques Brel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bill Near,
The Remains,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter and Kerry,
The Count Five,
Bobby Sherman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Aural Exciters,
Dennis Brown,
In Retrospect,
Rod Modell,
Sight & Sound,
The Buckinghams,
Mark Hollis,
Ultra Naté,
DJ Sneak,
Rotary Connection,
Altered Images,
The Velvet Underground,
June Days,
Lungfish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Techniques,
The Motions,
Popol Vuh,
Pierre Henry,
Whodini,
JFA,
Electric Prunes,
Eddi Front,
Mars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lindisfarne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Alphaville,
Aaron Thompson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Victims,
The Wake,
ABC,
Warsaw,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.