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 Montenegro and from Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Drive Like Jehu to the punk 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Bobby Womack,
The Mojo Men,
Anthony Braxton,
Todd Rundgren,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
OOIOO,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Donny Hathaway,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cal Tjader,
T.S.O.L.,
Alton Ellis,
Scion,
Can,
Depeche Mode,
Sonny Sharrock,
Make Up,
Ten City,
Guru Guru,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eurythmics,
Bad Manners,
Newcleus,
Soul Sonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Boz Scaggs,
Thee Headcoats,
Los Fastidios,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cure,
Grauzone,
One Last Wish,
Mission of Burma,
The Smiths,
Sound Behaviour,
Boredoms,
The Grass Roots,
The Gap Band,
The Remains,
Inner City,
Crispy Ambulance,
ABBA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Roxette,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joyce Sims,
Minnie Riperton,
Henry Cow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Silicon Teens,
Lightning Bolt,
Pantytec,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aaron Thompson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
June Days,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.