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 Azerbaijan and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Niagra,
Sällskapet,
Essential Logic,
Minutemen,
Qualms,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
10cc,
Babytalk,
Aloha Tigers,
The Tremeloes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Desert Stars,
Black Flag,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Hasil Adkins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Los Fastidios,
The Real Kids,
Wasted Youth,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
Talk Talk,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Bar-Kays,
Eddi Front,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Zeros,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
cv313,
Hardrive,
OOIOO,
Animal Collective,
The Smoke,
Hoover,
The Grass Roots,
Frankie Knuckles,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Toni Rubio,
The Invisible,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Delta 5,
The Searchers,
The Mummies,
Faust,
Wings,
Banda Bassotti,
The Cure,
Buzzcocks,
Jacob Miller,
Sight & Sound,
Icehouse,
Skaos,
Radiohead,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul II Soul,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.