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 Vietnam and from Mumbai.
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 Philadelphia and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
The Black Dice,
The Names,
JFA,
Icehouse,
Soul II Soul,
Ken Boothe,
Black Moon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Andrew Hill,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Livin' Joy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Soulsonic Force,
Alton Ellis,
Wolf Eyes,
Ronnie Foster,
Funky Four + One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neu!,
Pole,
Gil Scott Heron,
Al Stewart,
Agitation Free,
Junior Murvin,
LL Cool J,
Public Image Ltd.,
Model 500,
The Last Poets,
ABBA,
a-ha,
Pantaleimon,
Siglo XX,
T.S.O.L.,
Leonard Cohen,
Panda Bear,
Cal Tjader,
Thompson Twins,
MC5,
Terry Callier,
Average White Band,
Henry Cow,
Symarip,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Count Five,
Groovy Waters,
Magazine,
David Axelrod,
Jeff Lynne,
The Blues Magoos,
The Invisible,
Jeff Mills,
Minor Threat,
Sonny Sharrock,
La Düsseldorf,
Inner City,
James White and The Blacks,
Charles Mingus,
Q and Not U,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.