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 Belarus and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Khruangbin to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Quantec,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Red Krayola,
Zapp,
Big Daddy Kane,
OOIOO,
Accadde A,
Robert Wyatt,
Japan,
The Barracudas,
Cymande,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
X-Ray Spex,
Kevin Saunderson,
Monolake,
The Star Department,
Jacques Brel,
The Tremeloes,
Leonard Cohen,
The Leaves,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Zeros,
Section 25,
Rites of Spring,
FM Einheit,
Anakelly,
Pantaleimon,
Aaron Thompson,
Dead Boys,
Wire,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Brick,
Warsaw,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Marc Almond,
Adolescents,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Saccharine Trust,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Count Five,
Ronan,
Delta 5,
Vladislav Delay,
The Gap Band,
Eurythmics,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dawn Penn,
Popol Vuh,
Altered Images,
Isaac Hayes,
Sugar Minott,
The Vogues,
Banda Bassotti,
the Soft Cell,
Groovy Waters,
10cc,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.