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 Monaco and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Eden Ahbez to the techno 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang On A Can 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
EPMD,
Avey Tare,
The Five Americans,
Los Fastidios,
Kerri Chandler,
Minor Threat,
Vladislav Delay,
AZ,
Soulsonic Force,
Smog,
Sandy B,
Bobbi Humphrey,
R.M.O.,
Intrusion,
Quantec,
Aswad,
Roxette,
Lakeside,
Talk Talk,
Black Flag,
Nirvana,
Max Romeo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Organ,
A Certain Ratio,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Urselle,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young,
Thee Headcoats,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Holt,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nas,
Brand Nubian,
Banda Bassotti,
The Music Machine,
Anakelly,
The Victims,
Roger Hodgson,
Funky Four + One,
Al Stewart,
Joensuu 1685,
Crispy Ambulance,
Shuggie Otis,
The Zeros,
Marvin Gaye,
Bill Near,
Clear Light,
Boogie Down Productions,
Das Ding,
Average White Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Gichy Dan,
Albert Ayler,
Toni Rubio,
Icehouse,
Boz Scaggs,
Soul II Soul,
Bad Manners,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.