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 Chad and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Misunderstood to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
The Slackers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Blancmange,
The Divine Comedy,
MDC,
Animal Collective,
Swell Maps,
Public Image Ltd.,
Morten Harket,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Quando Quango,
Jandek,
Soul Sonic Force,
R.M.O.,
The Stooges,
Pierre Henry,
LL Cool J,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Massinfluence,
Cheater Slicks,
Bob Dylan,
Scrapy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Remains,
Deakin,
Eric Copeland,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Dirtbombs,
Pantytec,
The Walker Brothers,
Rakim,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Dead C,
The Victims,
Suicide,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Black Dice,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Womack,
Wasted Youth,
Althea and Donna,
Cybotron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Scion,
Hashim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Angels of Light,
Absolute Body Control,
Ten City,
Gichy Dan,
Lungfish,
The Leaves,
Ronan,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.