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 Bahrain and from Portland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Stereo Dub,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mission of Burma,
D'Angelo,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Womack,
Royal Trux,
Moby Grape,
Fatback Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Crooked Eye,
Hardrive,
Girls At Our Best!,
Intrusion,
Von Mondo,
Electric Prunes,
Procol Harum,
Bluetip,
Hasil Adkins,
Lindisfarne,
The Black Dice,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anakelly,
Schoolly D,
Mo-Dettes,
Mantronix,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cameo,
The Skatalites,
Sister Nancy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Iggy Pop,
Smog,
Camberwell Now,
Peter and Kerry,
David Axelrod,
The Kinks,
China Crisis,
Sight & Sound,
Organ,
Wire,
Malaria!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crash Course in Science,
Lalann,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Danielle Patucci,
Peter & Gordon,
The J.B.'s,
Albert Ayler,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Sherman,
the Association,
This Heat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.