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 Brazil and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wasted Youth,
Byron Stingily,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
MDC,
Stetsasonic,
Ituana,
Monolake,
R.M.O.,
Rhythm & Sound,
Spoonie Gee,
Ronan,
Mr. Review,
Jawbox,
Bronski Beat,
Aswad,
Eurythmics,
Masters at Work,
The Doors,
Joey Negro,
Eric Dolphy,
Piero Umiliani,
F. McDonald,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Inner City,
John Foxx,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Pus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Newcleus,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Leaves,
CMW,
Cameo,
The J.B.'s,
Drexciya,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Second Layer,
Albert Ayler,
Kas Product,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Motorama,
Magazine,
In Retrospect,
New Age Steppers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Technova,
The Alarm Clocks,
Accadde A,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Cure,
Loose Ends,
John Coltrane,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scratch Acid,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.