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 Bangladesh and from Jakarta.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro 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 Talk Talk to the jazz 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Yaz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare,
Model 500,
Minny Pops,
Jawbox,
Magma,
Joey Negro,
kango's stein massive,
Saccharine Trust,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Toasters,
Black Sheep,
Vladislav Delay,
Pole,
Skarface,
Hoover,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Reuben Wilson,
The Saints,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Black Moon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Schoolly D,
Basic Channel,
Icehouse,
The Angels of Light,
Q65,
The Offenders,
The Birthday Party,
Babytalk,
Amazonics,
The Selecter,
Camberwell Now,
Black Flag,
Letta Mbulu,
Robert Hood,
John Holt,
The J.B.'s,
The Invisible,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Minutemen,
Zero Boys,
Erykah Badu,
Scott Walker,
JFA,
Byron Stingily,
Negative Approach,
Anakelly,
The Motions,
David Axelrod,
The Kinks,
The Doors,
Panda Bear,
Johnny Clarke,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wolf Eyes,
Fluxion,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.