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 Finland and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 The Beau Brummels to the grunge 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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cure,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Stereo Dub,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flipper,
Siglo XX,
Negative Approach,
China Crisis,
Matthew Halsall,
The Busters,
X-102,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bang On A Can,
Shuggie Otis,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tears for Fears,
John Foxx,
Fear,
Crash Course in Science,
Man Parrish,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Vogues,
Black Sheep,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Masters at Work,
Kerri Chandler,
Charles Mingus,
X-Ray Spex,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marc Almond,
The Invisible,
Jerry's Kids,
Symarip,
Bush Tetras,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moss Icon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
John Lydon,
Jacob Miller,
DNA,
The Mummies,
Althea and Donna,
Aural Exciters,
Tubeway Army,
Scrapy,
Barrington Levy,
Janne Schatter,
Sällskapet,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
ABC,
Bob Dylan,
Avey Tare,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.