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 Senegal and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 LL Cool J to the rock 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Porter Ricks,
Cymande,
UT,
Harmonia,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sarah Menescal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
OOIOO,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gories,
Maleditus Sound,
Talk Talk,
MC5,
Nick Fraelich,
Janne Schatter,
The Real Kids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Half Japanese,
Unwound,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rhythm & Sound,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Maurizio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
A Certain Ratio,
Letta Mbulu,
The Invisible,
Black Sheep,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Monks,
L. Decosne,
Oneida,
Bronski Beat,
Leonard Cohen,
Alton Ellis,
Agent Orange,
Tres Demented,
The Doobie Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
KRS-One,
Bluetip,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fatback Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scratch Acid,
X-102,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Shoche,
Loose Ends,
The Mummies,
The Slits,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Q and Not U,
Gong,
Country Teasers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Amon Düül,
Motorama,
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.