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 Jamaica and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Negative Approach to the rap 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
David McCallum,
X-102,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mad Mike,
Vainqueur,
Erykah Badu,
Joe Smooth,
Deadbeat,
T. Rex,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Velvet Underground,
Chris Corsano,
X-101,
Brick,
Wolf Eyes,
New Age Steppers,
Angry Samoans,
The Stooges,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ice-T,
Pagans,
The Dead C,
Robert Wyatt,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Warren Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Trojans,
Marvin Gaye,
Ludus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Skaos,
Young Marble Giants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mark Hollis,
Iggy Pop,
Jerry's Kids,
Joey Negro,
Radiohead,
D'Angelo,
Joyce Sims,
Toni Rubio,
Monolake,
Terrestrial Tones,
New York Dolls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deepchord,
Subhumans,
Rekid,
The Searchers,
Sister Nancy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Das Ding,
the Normal,
Trumans Water,
Clear Light,
Spoonie Gee,
Delon & Dalcan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.