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 Nigeria and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Kas Product to the grime 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Connie Case,
The J.B.'s,
Infiniti,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Happenings,
Nirvana,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Residents,
Soul II Soul,
Trumans Water,
Second Layer,
Mr. Review,
Chrome,
The Golliwogs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vladislav Delay,
Q and Not U,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Trojans,
Can,
Siglo XX,
DNA,
Pylon,
Robert Hood,
Jeff Lynne,
the Germs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
FM Einheit,
D'Angelo,
The Gories,
Duran Duran,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Misunderstood,
Matthew Bourne,
Scientists,
Prince Buster,
Darondo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Buzzcocks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Maleditus Sound,
David Axelrod,
Kas Product,
Smog,
New Age Steppers,
Ice-T,
K-Klass,
Funkadelic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marcia Griffiths,
Stiv Bators,
Guru Guru,
Babytalk,
Idris Muhammad,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.