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 Bahamas and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 K-Klass to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Tomorrow,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Max Romeo,
Funky Four + One,
Marshall Jefferson,
Angry Samoans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Pus,
The Fugs,
Gabor Szabo,
Delta 5,
Bobby Byrd,
Agitation Free,
Jeff Lynne,
Joey Negro,
China Crisis,
Lightning Bolt,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Techniques,
Supertramp,
10cc,
Laurel Aitken,
Morten Harket,
Mantronix,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eden Ahbez,
Alice Coltrane,
Ken Boothe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Robert Görl,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Urselle,
Reagan Youth,
Ronan,
Gong,
Jeff Mills,
Sam Rivers,
Nils Olav,
Ultimate Spinach,
Patti Smith,
X-102,
Spandau Ballet,
Buzzcocks,
Swell Maps,
Donny Hathaway,
The Doobie Brothers,
Grey Daturas,
Leonard Cohen,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Womack,
Arab on Radar,
Joensuu 1685,
Blossom Toes,
Ossler,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Robert Wyatt,
Avey Tare,
Second Layer,
Barbara Tucker,
Stetsasonic,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.