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 Tanzania and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar 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 In Retrospect to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Nas,
the Slits,
Bootsy Collins,
Von Mondo,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gun Club,
The Count Five,
EPMD,
Boz Scaggs,
Yusef Lateef,
Maleditus Sound,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wally Richardson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Soft Machine,
The Cowsills,
Fat Boys,
Oneida,
Soulsonic Force,
The Index,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pole,
Roxette,
Funkadelic,
Quantec,
This Heat,
Organ,
Godley & Creme,
Ornette Coleman,
Gang Green,
The Cure,
Guru Guru,
Sarah Menescal,
These Immortal Souls,
A Certain Ratio,
Amon Düül,
Gregory Isaacs,
Albert Ayler,
Mr. Review,
Pulsallama,
Prince Buster,
Derrick May,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gabor Szabo,
Zapp,
Cybotron,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Los Fastidios,
Hashim,
Urselle,
Amon Düül II,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Anakelly,
Television Personalities,
Au Pairs,
Sugar Minott,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Buckinghams,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.