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 Libya and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the funk 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
The J.B.'s,
Little Man,
Scan 7,
Loose Ends,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Black Flag,
The Knickerbockers,
Albert Ayler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gang Gang Dance,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Isaac Hayes,
The Moody Blues,
Derrick Morgan,
Suburban Knight,
Soft Cell,
Essential Logic,
Roy Ayers,
The Pretty Things,
Ten City,
Zapp,
Todd Terry,
Ludus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sarah Menescal,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dawn Penn,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jimmy McGriff,
Oblivians,
The Vogues,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Donny Hathaway,
Jeff Lynne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Second Layer,
Davy DMX,
Quando Quango,
T.S.O.L.,
Smog,
The Cramps,
Lou Reed,
June of 44,
Infiniti,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sandy B,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Offenders,
Cameo,
L. Decosne,
Nirvana,
The Mummies,
Animal Collective,
Joe Smooth,
The Techniques,
Sex Pistols,
Terry Callier,
Slick Rick,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.