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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
One Last Wish,
FM Einheit,
Sight & Sound,
The Sound,
Lightning Bolt,
The Modern Lovers,
Subhumans,
This Heat,
The Gap Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Fela Kuti,
Curtis Mayfield,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang of Four,
D'Angelo,
Mo-Dettes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pylon,
Skarface,
Inner City,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stockholm Monsters,
Idris Muhammad,
Guru Guru,
Gichy Dan,
Yazoo,
Section 25,
Pulsallama,
Panda Bear,
Brothers Johnson,
Bauhaus,
AZ,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Khruangbin,
Cameo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Evens,
Black Moon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dual Sessions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Schoolly D,
Ponytail,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fluxion,
Sonic Youth,
Sixth Finger,
Eddi Front,
The Residents,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jacob Miller,
Delon & Dalcan,
Albert Ayler,
Q65,
Johnny Clarke,
John Foxx,
Robert Wyatt,
Letta Mbulu,
Thee Headcoats,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.