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 Jordan and from London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Lou Reed 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 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Saccharine Trust,
Television,
Ultra Naté,
Oblivians,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pere Ubu,
Nas,
Moebius,
Chris Corsano,
Minor Threat,
Sun City Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Index,
Nirvana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Maurizio,
Skriet,
The Associates,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Inner City,
Deakin,
Public Enemy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Circle Jerks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
DNA,
Alison Limerick,
U.S. Maple,
Dual Sessions,
Don Cherry,
Maleditus Sound,
Liliput,
DJ Style,
T. Rex,
Letta Mbulu,
Rotary Connection,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Stiv Bators,
Clear Light,
LL Cool J,
Pole,
Eurythmics,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Radiohead,
Spoonie Gee,
Motorama,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Slits,
Minny Pops,
Loose Ends,
OOIOO,
Dennis Brown,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Selecter,
Eli Mardock,
Outsiders,
MC5,
ABBA,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.