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 Croatia and from Tokyo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Donald Byrd to the punk 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ken Boothe,
Cameo,
Roger Hodgson,
Jacob Miller,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pere Ubu,
Crispy Ambulance,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tom Boy,
Sexual Harrassment,
X-102,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Basic Channel,
Sun City Girls,
PIL,
The Walker Brothers,
Technova,
Rosa Yemen,
The Martian,
Con Funk Shun,
Lou Christie,
Ralphi Rosario,
Laurel Aitken,
Metal Thangz,
The Selecter,
Mo-Dettes,
Todd Terry,
Fugazi,
Pantytec,
Qualms,
Royal Trux,
The Toasters,
Maurizio,
Yazoo,
Sällskapet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soft Cell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Derrick May,
Groovy Waters,
Porter Ricks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lungfish,
This Heat,
Gang Starr,
Moebius,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Litter,
Sight & Sound,
Youth Brigade,
Spandau Ballet,
These Immortal Souls,
Panda Bear,
Dennis Brown,
Gregory Isaacs,
Mr. Review,
Fluxion,
The Techniques,
Underground Resistance,
Ultimate Spinach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.