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 Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the disco 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
L. Decosne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Real Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Green,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Surgeon,
Swans,
Minny Pops,
Hoover,
The Trojans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ludus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-Ray Spex,
Roger Hodgson,
Thee Headcoats,
Soft Machine,
Unwound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Siglo XX,
The Raincoats,
Albert Ayler,
Brothers Johnson,
Subhumans,
Steve Hackett,
Kurtis Blow,
The Blackbyrds,
Piero Umiliani,
The Smiths,
New York Dolls,
Young Marble Giants,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dual Sessions,
Archie Shepp,
Carl Craig,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Todd Terry,
The Blues Magoos,
Mantronix,
Barbara Tucker,
Talk Talk,
Excepter,
Jerry's Kids,
Skaos,
The J.B.'s,
Marc Almond,
Matthew Halsall,
Anthony Braxton,
Hardrive,
Silicon Teens,
Cymande,
Spandau Ballet,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun Ra,
Motorama,
Skriet,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.