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 Mali and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Blake Baxter to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Scientists,
The Kinks,
Joe Finger,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobby Sherman,
David Bowie,
Can,
Soft Machine,
Fluxion,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sight & Sound,
Soft Cell,
Cameo,
A Certain Ratio,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Slackers,
Skarface,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Trumans Water,
Rites of Spring,
The Victims,
Man Eating Sloth,
John Cale,
Ice-T,
Nik Kershaw,
T. Rex,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eddi Front,
Schoolly D,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
Echospace,
Fela Kuti,
Animal Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Idris Muhammad,
Soul II Soul,
The Associates,
Nirvana,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gang Starr,
The Modern Lovers,
In Retrospect,
Robert Görl,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Shuggie Otis,
Livin' Joy,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker,
Lucky Dragons,
Quadrant,
Agitation Free,
Max Romeo,
Erasure,
Davy DMX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.