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 Iceland and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fad Gadget to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Gang Starr,
The Walker Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marc Almond,
Crooked Eye,
Jawbox,
Cluster,
The Angels of Light,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sam Rivers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
ABBA,
Radio Birdman,
Piero Umiliani,
Masters at Work,
Eve St. Jones,
Thee Headcoats,
Howard Jones,
Underground Resistance,
Sixth Finger,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Funky Four + One,
EPMD,
The Seeds,
AZ,
Soul II Soul,
The Fuzztones,
Zapp,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Human League,
Reuben Wilson,
The Velvet Underground,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tom Boy,
Intrusion,
Althea and Donna,
Agitation Free,
Heaven 17,
John Holt,
Erykah Badu,
Ten City,
Mr. Review,
Shoche,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Amazonics,
Wings,
Connie Case,
The Motions,
Lightning Bolt,
Tommy Roe,
Derrick Morgan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eric Dolphy,
Guru Guru,
Bill Near,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.