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 Suriname and from Accra.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Black Moon to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
The Gladiators,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sparks,
Gong,
This Heat,
Make Up,
Eric Dolphy,
Danielle Patucci,
Bauhaus,
Black Sheep,
Flipper,
Gil Scott Heron,
Second Layer,
Trumans Water,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Pop Group,
Pole,
Bronski Beat,
The Dave Clark Five,
Liliput,
Pantytec,
The American Breed,
The Angels of Light,
X-101,
Black Pus,
Jeff Lynne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tomorrow,
Minny Pops,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bush Tetras,
Ronan,
Peter and Kerry,
The Blackbyrds,
Kerri Chandler,
Shuggie Otis,
Jacob Miller,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
These Immortal Souls,
Bill Near,
Scientists,
Max Romeo,
Mantronix,
John Coltrane,
Spandau Ballet,
Althea and Donna,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nirvana,
Magazine,
Hasil Adkins,
Underground Resistance,
The Vogues,
Vladislav Delay,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Anakelly,
Urselle,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.