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 Mozambique and from Seoul.
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 Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Brand Nubian to the dance 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Robert Görl,
The Smiths,
Sun Ra,
Hoover,
Young Marble Giants,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rekid,
Schoolly D,
Jacques Brel,
Con Funk Shun,
The Real Kids,
Pantaleimon,
Connie Case,
Vladislav Delay,
Nirvana,
Amon Düül II,
Robert Hood,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sarah Menescal,
Sly & The Family Stone,
K-Klass,
The Dead C,
Slick Rick,
Hot Snakes,
Infiniti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Tremeloes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Accadde A,
Oneida,
The Cure,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pylon,
June Days,
Max Romeo,
Deakin,
The Motions,
The Standells,
KRS-One,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Loose Ends,
The Doobie Brothers,
Davy DMX,
Roxette,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bill Near,
The Zeros,
Q and Not U,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lungfish,
Gregory Isaacs,
Index,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crime,
Excepter,
Toni Rubio,
Jeff Mills,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Second Layer,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.