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 Guinea-Bissau and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 disco 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Zero Boys,
L. Decosne,
Arab on Radar,
the Slits,
La Düsseldorf,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hot Snakes,
Excepter,
Bush Tetras,
Chrome,
Eddi Front,
Chris Corsano,
Kerri Chandler,
Tim Buckley,
Hashim,
Zapp,
Michelle Simonal,
Drexciya,
The Golliwogs,
Spandau Ballet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultra Naté,
Los Fastidios,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rufus Thomas,
Anakelly,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pylon,
a-ha,
Kayak,
Radiohead,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Donny Hathaway,
Negative Approach,
ABC,
The Cure,
Skriet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Fugs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moss Icon,
Jeff Lynne,
Jeru the Damaja,
Funkadelic,
Black Pus,
Subhumans,
Q65,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Faraquet,
Dave Gahan,
Tom Boy,
The Stooges,
Simply Red,
Bizarre Inc.,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Das Ding,
Nas,
Essential Logic,
Royal Trux,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.