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 Albania and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Glenn Branca to the techno 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
The Grass Roots,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barbara Tucker,
Severed Heads,
Sandy B,
Schoolly D,
The Litter,
Alton Ellis,
Prince Buster,
Judy Mowatt,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minor Threat,
The Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
Unwound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Little Man,
Sister Nancy,
Althea and Donna,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Metal Thangz,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Icehouse,
Rotary Connection,
Drive Like Jehu,
Arab on Radar,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sam Rivers,
Franke,
World's Most,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wasted Youth,
Mr. Review,
Country Joe & The Fish,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Wells,
Cymande,
The Skatalites,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jawbox,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Monochrome Set,
Godley & Creme,
Inner City,
Nick Fraelich,
Deakin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bluetip,
The Victims,
the Sonics,
Saccharine Trust,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rosa Yemen,
Scratch Acid,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Khruangbin,
Grauzone,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.