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 Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe 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 Yaz to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Leonard Cohen,
Television,
Public Image Ltd.,
Stetsasonic,
Hot Snakes,
Reagan Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Faust,
Fear,
Agent Orange,
Sonny Sharrock,
L. Decosne,
Brick,
Camouflage,
Robert Görl,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bang On A Can,
James White and The Blacks,
Khruangbin,
Nas,
The Pretty Things,
Easy Going,
Ultra Naté,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Franke,
Todd Terry,
Nick Fraelich,
Dave Gahan,
Donny Hathaway,
Moss Icon,
Minny Pops,
Swans,
Loose Ends,
Ken Boothe,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stiv Bators,
D'Angelo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ponytail,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Certain Ratio,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Sound,
Bluetip,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Symarip,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mission of Burma,
Scott Walker,
Robert Hood,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Wasted Youth,
Yellowson,
Jeff Lynne,
Cecil Taylor,
Godley & Creme,
Jawbox,
Crime,
the Bar-Kays,
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.