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 Suriname 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Association,
The Names,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lower 48,
Funky Four + One,
Vainqueur,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fall,
The Young Rascals,
Thee Headcoats,
Marine Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
F. McDonald,
Blake Baxter,
EPMD,
Subhumans,
Mark Hollis,
Popol Vuh,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lightning Bolt,
Intrusion,
Buzzcocks,
The Offenders,
Rakim,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Neu!,
Index,
Dennis Brown,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Q and Not U,
Brothers Johnson,
Lucky Dragons,
Mr. Review,
Byron Stingily,
Smog,
Derrick Morgan,
June of 44,
La Düsseldorf,
Sonic Youth,
The Selecter,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Urselle,
Livin' Joy,
Slave,
Tears for Fears,
Godley & Creme,
Electric Prunes,
Loose Ends,
The Gladiators,
Sixth Finger,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Flag,
Black Moon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Barracudas,
Radiohead,
Pylon,
Jacques Brel,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.