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 Costa Rica and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Duran Duran 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Susan Cadogan,
Piero Umiliani,
The Gladiators,
the Bar-Kays,
Sandy B,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth,
John Holt,
Sonic Youth,
The Mojo Men,
Monolake,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ohio Players,
Gang of Four,
the Slits,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sixth Finger,
Leonard Cohen,
Fat Boys,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sound,
The Fall,
MDC,
Derrick Morgan,
Moby Grape,
The Smoke,
Drexciya,
Lower 48,
Q65,
Max Romeo,
Mr. Review,
Kas Product,
Minor Threat,
DJ Sneak,
Cheater Slicks,
Scratch Acid,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Barbara Tucker,
Eddi Front,
Nik Kershaw,
Royal Trux,
Cymande,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiohead,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Swans,
Skarface,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Black Bananas,
Negative Approach,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sällskapet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Robert Hood,
The Tremeloes,
Chrome,
ABBA,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.