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 Romania and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Robert Palmer 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 Motorama to the techno 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Accadde A,
The Fugs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Guru Guru,
Ronan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nirvana,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jacques Brel,
Rotary Connection,
Mars,
Black Flag,
Main Source,
Tommy Roe,
The Electric Prunes,
Suicide,
The Real Kids,
Sällskapet,
China Crisis,
Stereo Dub,
Clear Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
cv313,
Lalann,
Yaz,
Ohio Players,
Scan 7,
David Bowie,
Joensuu 1685,
The Walker Brothers,
Khruangbin,
Gang Green,
Soul Sonic Force,
Faraquet,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rekid,
DJ Sneak,
Parry Music,
Yellowson,
Marvin Gaye,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scrapy,
The Seeds,
Johnny Clarke,
H. Thieme,
Ituana,
Section 25,
Soft Machine,
The Raincoats,
Suburban Knight,
The Neon Judgement,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Invisible,
T.S.O.L.,
Andrew Hill,
Grandmaster Flash,
Porter Ricks,
Unwound,
Radiohead,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.