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 Morocco and from Lyon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Newcleus to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Skriet,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Grass Roots,
Motorama,
Flash Fearless,
The Fire Engines,
The Neon Judgement,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Theoretical Girls,
Godley & Creme,
Amon Düül II,
Stetsasonic,
Roxette,
Steve Hackett,
the Human League,
Cybotron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Machine,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Isaac Hayes,
The Techniques,
Minutemen,
Ornette Coleman,
Dead Boys,
Joe Finger,
ABC,
Gang Green,
Prince Buster,
Basic Channel,
Aswad,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Babytalk,
Barrington Levy,
The Monks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pierre Henry,
Das Ding,
Aloha Tigers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Porter Ricks,
The Gun Club,
Second Layer,
Accadde A,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fall,
Camouflage,
Model 500,
EPMD,
Section 25,
John Lydon,
Kerri Chandler,
Hoover,
Kayak,
Tom Boy,
The Cure,
Electric Prunes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lebanon Hanover,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.