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 Luxembourg and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soft Machine to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grey Daturas,
Funkadelic,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Gap Band,
Harmonia,
Man Parrish,
Babytalk,
Marmalade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
Dawn Penn,
Motorama,
The Shadows of Knight,
Icehouse,
The Leaves,
X-102,
Make Up,
Masters at Work,
Scratch Acid,
Organ,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Delta 5,
The Skatalites,
The Move,
Todd Rundgren,
Flipper,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
X-Ray Spex,
Scion,
The Angels of Light,
Aaron Thompson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Litter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marine Girls,
The Cowsills,
Alton Ellis,
Intrusion,
Model 500,
Sällskapet,
Barry Ungar,
Skriet,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Monks,
Simply Red,
The Stooges,
Harry Pussy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Techniques,
Sparks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mission of Burma,
Fear,
Sugar Minott,
Mandrill,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.