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 Czech Republic and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Aswad to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Chris Corsano,
Hashim,
Magma,
the Association,
Scratch Acid,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
In Retrospect,
Henry Cow,
Lakeside,
Scion,
Whodini,
Cecil Taylor,
Liliput,
Can,
Josef K,
Brothers Johnson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deakin,
Thee Headcoats,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brand Nubian,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nirvana,
Wasted Youth,
Underground Resistance,
Ralphi Rosario,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kenny Larkin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Robert Görl,
Jeff Lynne,
Heaven 17,
Crooked Eye,
The Evens,
The Young Rascals,
Pole,
The Martian,
Todd Rundgren,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
La Düsseldorf,
Crash Course in Science,
Godley & Creme,
Leonard Cohen,
Pharoah Sanders,
Soft Cell,
Moby Grape,
Wire,
Basic Channel,
The Velvet Underground,
Ituana,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funky Four + One,
Kayak,
Soulsonic Force,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The United States of America,
Parry Music,
Monks,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.