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 Sudan and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 David Bowie to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Selector Dub Narcotic. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Reagan Youth,
Scrapy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
UT,
Echospace,
Hardrive,
The Happenings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Essential Logic,
The Stooges,
The Gories,
Yusef Lateef,
Malaria!,
Q and Not U,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
EPMD,
Ponytail,
Bang On A Can,
Donny Hathaway,
Massinfluence,
Arab on Radar,
New York Dolls,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Talk Talk,
Flipper,
Deakin,
Ituana,
Mission of Burma,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scott Walker,
The Fugs,
The Five Americans,
The Vogues,
Eden Ahbez,
Suburban Knight,
Ossler,
The Misunderstood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Trumans Water,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ten City,
Metal Thangz,
La Düsseldorf,
Alphaville,
The Monochrome Set,
Flash Fearless,
Quantec,
The Motions,
Rakim,
Alton Ellis,
Scratch Acid,
Yaz,
Cymande,
The Star Department,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.