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 Estonia and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 marimba 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 Pharoah Sanders to the punk 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Tim Buckley,
John Cale,
Johnny Osbourne,
Carl Craig,
Barrington Levy,
Idris Muhammad,
E-Dancer,
Roxette,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soulsonic Force,
The Evens,
Severed Heads,
Derrick May,
In Retrospect,
Fad Gadget,
Rod Modell,
Joensuu 1685,
Arab on Radar,
Funkadelic,
Lower 48,
Sound Behaviour,
Isaac Hayes,
Henry Cow,
Eli Mardock,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Massinfluence,
Warren Ellis,
Patti Smith,
Blancmange,
Fatback Band,
Procol Harum,
AZ,
Minny Pops,
Interpol,
Yellowson,
Matthew Bourne,
Smog,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Byrd,
Mandrill,
Organ,
JFA,
Crispy Ambulance,
Negative Approach,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
48th St. Collective,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Model 500,
Flipper,
Duran Duran,
Babytalk,
Sex Pistols,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tomorrow,
Erasure,
The Gun Club,
Ken Boothe,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.