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 Guyana and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 snare 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 Aloha Tigers to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Donald Byrd,
Gong,
Rhythm & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blake Baxter,
PIL,
Angry Samoans,
Yusef Lateef,
Morten Harket,
Judy Mowatt,
Altered Images,
Harmonia,
The Victims,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Henry Cow,
The Count Five,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rosa Yemen,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Don Cherry,
Radiohead,
Toni Rubio,
The Invisible,
X-Ray Spex,
Suburban Knight,
Pere Ubu,
Rotary Connection,
The Dead C,
Metal Thangz,
Soft Cell,
Sandy B,
Alton Ellis,
Dawn Penn,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lower 48,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scion,
Duran Duran,
K-Klass,
Brand Nubian,
Scratch Acid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spoonie Gee,
The Star Department,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aswad,
Sixth Finger,
DJ Style,
The Smiths,
Trumans Water,
Robert Görl,
Bill Near,
Minutemen,
Schoolly D,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Birthday Party,
Faraquet,
The Cramps,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.