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 Ghana and from Taipei.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
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 Country Joe & The Fish to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Amazonics,
Silicon Teens,
The Offenders,
Davy DMX,
The Move,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Durutti Column,
Alice Coltrane,
Bizarre Inc.,
New York Dolls,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Smiths,
Fluxion,
Jacob Miller,
X-102,
Young Marble Giants,
Albert Ayler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Outsiders,
Tears for Fears,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Roxy Music,
Quantec,
Guru Guru,
Masters at Work,
The Doors,
ABC,
Country Teasers,
Lalann,
Funky Four + One,
The Fortunes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Freddie Wadling,
Lightning Bolt,
Gabor Szabo,
Das Ding,
Bobby Byrd,
Buzzcocks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bronski Beat,
Pantytec,
Roy Ayers,
Marine Girls,
Monolake,
The Sonics,
Eve St. Jones,
Archie Shepp,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Moss Icon,
Black Bananas,
The New Christs,
Lindisfarne,
Lungfish,
Scrapy,
The Slits,
Lucky Dragons,
Donald Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.