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 Estonia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 theremin 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 Average White Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
AZ,
Joy Division,
Archie Shepp,
10cc,
Albert Ayler,
Zapp,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jeff Lynne,
The Move,
Gang Starr,
L. Decosne,
Jacques Brel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tropical Tobacco,
CMW,
Steve Hackett,
Kerri Chandler,
Eli Mardock,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blake Baxter,
Yazoo,
Mark Hollis,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Terry Callier,
Stockholm Monsters,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric B and Rakim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
E-Dancer,
Grauzone,
R.M.O.,
Television Personalities,
T.S.O.L.,
Audionom,
Eric Copeland,
Wings,
Section 25,
Spoonie Gee,
Little Man,
Surgeon,
Goldenarms,
The Skatalites,
Zero Boys,
New Order,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Dirtbombs,
Scratch Acid,
Rosa Yemen,
The Litter,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nas,
Minutemen,
Faust,
Connie Case,
Darondo,
The Knickerbockers,
The Smiths,
Crispian St. Peters,
Suicide,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.