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 France and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ 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 Wasted Youth to the crunk 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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Alphaville,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Simply Red,
Duran Duran,
Soft Machine,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Velvet Underground,
Pulsallama,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hasil Adkins,
The Standells,
Alice Coltrane,
Sam Rivers,
Television Personalities,
The Monks,
The Barracudas,
Black Sheep,
Robert Hood,
Gang Gang Dance,
Erasure,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
Rosa Yemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
World's Most,
The Fortunes,
F. McDonald,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bad Manners,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Moby Grape,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Curtis Mayfield,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
Gong,
Gang Starr,
China Crisis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Normal,
Nick Fraelich,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Pop Group,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Grass Roots,
The Raincoats,
Bobby Sherman,
Nik Kershaw,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Audionom,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Black Bananas,
Tres Demented,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Warsaw,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.