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 Ukraine and from Tokyo.
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 Hong Kong and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Amon Düül to the funk 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
K-Klass,
Basic Channel,
Technova,
Robert Görl,
Yazoo,
Donald Byrd,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fall,
Marine Girls,
the Association,
Jeff Mills,
Mars,
Absolute Body Control,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Urselle,
Lou Reed,
The Knickerbockers,
Spandau Ballet,
Don Cherry,
the Soft Cell,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Crooked Eye,
Hoover,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Cure,
Cymande,
The Busters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cybotron,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Red Krayola,
The Litter,
Robert Hood,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare,
Pagans,
H. Thieme,
In Retrospect,
Jacques Brel,
Con Funk Shun,
The Misunderstood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lucky Dragons,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gories,
The Blackbyrds,
Harpers Bizarre,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
cv313,
Supertramp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
The Dirtbombs,
The Pop Group,
Goldenarms,
Leonard Cohen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.