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 Turkmenistan and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin 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 Gang Green to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Flipper,
Fela Kuti,
Soulsonic Force,
Model 500,
The Detroit Cobras,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Sherman,
Accadde A,
Idris Muhammad,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gichy Dan,
Roy Ayers,
The Stooges,
Marine Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Neil Young,
The Fall,
Chris Corsano,
The J.B.'s,
The Count Five,
Franke,
Patti Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hashim,
Tears for Fears,
Audionom,
Chrome,
Agent Orange,
Moss Icon,
Eden Ahbez,
Tomorrow,
Desert Stars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sparks,
Bang On A Can,
Cymande,
The Trojans,
The Evens,
Monks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
OOIOO,
The Dirtbombs,
The Gladiators,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Masters at Work,
Alton Ellis,
The Monks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Graham Central Station,
Kayak,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantytec,
Robert Wyatt,
Jacques Brel,
Dennis Brown,
Rod Modell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonic Youth,
Kenny Larkin,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.