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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
The Birthday Party,
Depeche Mode,
Gabor Szabo,
Ultravox,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cramps,
The Barracudas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
LL Cool J,
Jacob Miller,
The Human League,
Barbara Tucker,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Durutti Column,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
In Retrospect,
Monks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Robert Hood,
Severed Heads,
The Walker Brothers,
Make Up,
48th St. Collective,
Black Sheep,
Roger Hodgson,
Bad Manners,
Sight & Sound,
Brothers Johnson,
Brand Nubian,
Leonard Cohen,
Yazoo,
These Immortal Souls,
cv313,
Minor Threat,
The Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brass Construction,
Porter Ricks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ken Boothe,
Malaria!,
Gong,
Jacques Brel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kerri Chandler,
The Modern Lovers,
Derrick Morgan,
Japan,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harry Pussy,
Tim Buckley,
Vainqueur,
Loose Ends,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.