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 El Salvador and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe 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 Echo & the Bunnymen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
The Skatalites,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rapeman,
Robert Wyatt,
Thee Headcoats,
Davy DMX,
Frankie Knuckles,
ABC,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Mojo Men,
Boz Scaggs,
Aswad,
The Durutti Column,
Supertramp,
Procol Harum,
DNA,
Pantytec,
Half Japanese,
Model 500,
Maleditus Sound,
Surgeon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rufus Thomas,
The Martian,
Cymande,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Brand Nubian,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Easy Going,
The Leaves,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Harry Pussy,
Grey Daturas,
Judy Mowatt,
The Associates,
Pantaleimon,
Dawn Penn,
Groovy Waters,
Sex Pistols,
Quantec,
Severed Heads,
The Move,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Velvet Underground,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Knickerbockers,
Electric Prunes,
Angry Samoans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rites of Spring,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skriet,
Eric Dolphy,
Leonard Cohen,
Joey Negro,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.