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 Namibia 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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Dawn Penn to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord 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 rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Saccharine Trust,
The Techniques,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gichy Dan,
Sam Rivers,
Gang Green,
Archie Shepp,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Arcadia,
Half Japanese,
Sandy B,
Warren Ellis,
Tim Buckley,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The United States of America,
Kevin Saunderson,
Radiohead,
New Order,
Masters at Work,
The Martian,
Neil Young,
Fluxion,
Monolake,
Crash Course in Science,
Charles Mingus,
Eurythmics,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skaos,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick Morgan,
Severed Heads,
Marc Almond,
Reuben Wilson,
Crooked Eye,
Stetsasonic,
Tres Demented,
Soulsonic Force,
Laurel Aitken,
The Selecter,
Bang On A Can,
Kayak,
Aural Exciters,
Minny Pops,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Womack,
Japan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nils Olav,
Robert Wyatt,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Cowsills,
Aloha Tigers,
Los Fastidios,
Leonard Cohen,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doors,
Massinfluence,
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.