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 Kenya and from London.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Joyce Sims to the funk 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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Section 25,
Interpol,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Infiniti,
Organ,
Lightning Bolt,
Terry Callier,
Aaron Thompson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cybotron,
Reuben Wilson,
Jawbox,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerri Chandler,
The Divine Comedy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Crooked Eye,
Babytalk,
Zero Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Q65,
Juan Atkins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Monks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pere Ubu,
John Holt,
Khruangbin,
The Invisible,
Eric Dolphy,
Barry Ungar,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Basic Channel,
Al Stewart,
Young Marble Giants,
Bang On A Can,
The Skatalites,
Neu!,
Brand Nubian,
Gang Green,
Sarah Menescal,
The Gories,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tomorrow,
T.S.O.L.,
Mr. Review,
Anakelly,
Angry Samoans,
The Moleskins,
The Real Kids,
Andrew Hill,
Guru Guru,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bill Wells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Erykah Badu,
Franke,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.