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 Moldova and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ludus to the grime 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Blossom Toes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
H. Thieme,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scion,
Warren Ellis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marmalade,
The Zeros,
Scott Walker,
Man Parrish,
John Lydon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Association,
The Misunderstood,
Amon Düül,
Ultimate Spinach,
Toni Rubio,
Dual Sessions,
The Mojo Men,
Qualms,
The Motions,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Derrick May,
Harpers Bizarre,
10cc,
Faraquet,
Bill Near,
The Skatalites,
Liliput,
The Star Department,
Boredoms,
The Grass Roots,
Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang On A Can,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grauzone,
Patti Smith,
Whodini,
Brand Nubian,
Lucky Dragons,
R.M.O.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Symarip,
Laurel Aitken,
Stiv Bators,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lightning Bolt,
Main Source,
Bauhaus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Curtis Mayfield,
New York Dolls,
Roger Hodgson,
The Real Kids,
Crooked Eye,
Marvin Gaye,
KRS-One,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.