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 Austria and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba 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 Lou Reed to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
This Heat,
Patti Smith,
Aswad,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Silicon Teens,
Al Stewart,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Todd Rundgren,
The Residents,
Amon Düül II,
Glenn Branca,
The Raincoats,
Television Personalities,
Gastr Del Sol,
Morten Harket,
Jacques Brel,
Barrington Levy,
Sight & Sound,
Make Up,
Sandy B,
The American Breed,
Bronski Beat,
KRS-One,
Brand Nubian,
Fugazi,
Lyres,
Toni Rubio,
Nik Kershaw,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Techniques,
The Dirtbombs,
Can,
Scratch Acid,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Stooges,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Howard Jones,
Blossom Toes,
Radiohead,
John Coltrane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bill Near,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Young Rascals,
E-Dancer,
The Real Kids,
Cymande,
kango's stein massive,
Idris Muhammad,
Symarip,
The Wake,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tears for Fears,
Little Man,
Joy Division,
Funky Four + One,
Slave,
Maurizio,
Mars,
Delon & Dalcan,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.