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 Turkey and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 808 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 John Cale to the crunk 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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now 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 disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
The Neon Judgement,
Anthony Braxton,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Skatalites,
The Modern Lovers,
F. McDonald,
Donald Byrd,
The Evens,
Warsaw,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Cale,
Sugar Minott,
the Soft Cell,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Moody Blues,
Bill Near,
Carl Craig,
Matthew Bourne,
Charles Mingus,
Nation of Ulysses,
OOIOO,
The Vogues,
Harmonia,
Patti Smith,
Das Ding,
Marmalade,
Marine Girls,
Deadbeat,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scratch Acid,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Erykah Badu,
Electric Prunes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pere Ubu,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grauzone,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Thee Headcoats,
The Searchers,
Ultravox,
The Pretty Things,
The Angels of Light,
Trumans Water,
Harry Pussy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Skarface,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Names,
Soulsonic Force,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Associates,
Albert Ayler,
the Bar-Kays,
Visage,
Nils Olav,
Masters at Work,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.