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 Mauritania and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Scion to the crunk 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Arcadia,
Neil Young,
Jesper Dahlback,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Livin' Joy,
The Five Americans,
Depeche Mode,
A Certain Ratio,
Little Man,
World's Most,
Yazoo,
Cluster,
CMW,
Rotary Connection,
The Saints,
Skarface,
Boz Scaggs,
Average White Band,
Porter Ricks,
Sound Behaviour,
KRS-One,
Erasure,
Bad Manners,
Jeff Mills,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tim Buckley,
The Seeds,
The Sound,
The Litter,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
MDC,
Peter & Gordon,
Eve St. Jones,
Anthony Braxton,
Intrusion,
The Associates,
The Selecter,
Ponytail,
Sonic Youth,
Skriet,
Ronnie Foster,
The Fall,
8 Eyed Spy,
Silicon Teens,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tom Boy,
The Dirtbombs,
Aloha Tigers,
Toni Rubio,
Laurel Aitken,
the Germs,
Oneida,
The Happenings,
Rites of Spring,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ralphi Rosario,
Q65,
Country Teasers,
June of 44,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.