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 Latvia and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ 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 Sonny Sharrock to the electroclash 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
The Smiths,
FM Einheit,
Can,
Soul II Soul,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ronan,
Talk Talk,
The Fire Engines,
Parry Music,
The Real Kids,
Junior Murvin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sixth Finger,
Jesper Dahlback,
Don Cherry,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Offenders,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eurythmics,
The Buckinghams,
the Association,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
48th St. Collective,
Fatback Band,
The Pop Group,
June Days,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Stooges,
D'Angelo,
The Velvet Underground,
Main Source,
Faust,
CMW,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Martian,
Bill Wells,
Cybotron,
Y Pants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cymande,
Bronski Beat,
Lucky Dragons,
Aaron Thompson,
Pere Ubu,
Lyres,
Section 25,
Pet Shop Boys,
K-Klass,
Roger Hodgson,
Whodini,
Subhumans,
Cecil Taylor,
Sound Behaviour,
Aloha Tigers,
Slave,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.