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 Antigua and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Mummies to the jazz 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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scratch Acid,
Yusef Lateef,
Symarip,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Spandau Ballet,
Fad Gadget,
Scott Walker,
Joe Finger,
New Order,
Sixth Finger,
Animal Collective,
Pierre Henry,
Rekid,
DNA,
Sonny Sharrock,
A Certain Ratio,
Cameo,
AZ,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gladiators,
Lou Christie,
Nik Kershaw,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cheater Slicks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rapeman,
Brass Construction,
Porter Ricks,
Sällskapet,
Roxette,
Joyce Sims,
Qualms,
The Star Department,
Lyres,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Albert Ayler,
The Tremeloes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Juan Atkins,
Warren Ellis,
Blossom Toes,
Laurel Aitken,
Echospace,
FM Einheit,
Spoonie Gee,
Quantec,
the Slits,
Wings,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Cale,
Terry Callier,
Fear,
Au Pairs,
Rufus Thomas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Massinfluence,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.