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 Bolivia and from New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare 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 Cymande to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
a-ha,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wire,
Eddi Front,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crash Course in Science,
Sun Ra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pet Shop Boys,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hardrive,
Stereo Dub,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scott Walker,
Lebanon Hanover,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Model 500,
The Fugs,
Aswad,
Absolute Body Control,
Al Stewart,
The Gories,
Joey Negro,
Fat Boys,
Rufus Thomas,
Spoonie Gee,
Guru Guru,
Matthew Halsall,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Man Parrish,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fuzztones,
the Association,
The Motions,
DJ Sneak,
Laurel Aitken,
Alice Coltrane,
Marvin Gaye,
Ohio Players,
Desert Stars,
The Angels of Light,
Skriet,
The Young Rascals,
The Move,
The Toasters,
Easy Going,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Quantec,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suburban Knight,
Idris Muhammad,
The Standells,
Parry Music,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
These Immortal Souls,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.