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 Afghanistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 UT to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
David Axelrod,
The Techniques,
the Soft Cell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
kango's stein massive,
The Grass Roots,
Hashim,
Albert Ayler,
The Saints,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Khruangbin,
Danielle Patucci,
Nick Fraelich,
Patti Smith,
Procol Harum,
Curtis Mayfield,
Funky Four + One,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mandrill,
Quantec,
U.S. Maple,
Todd Terry,
Dawn Penn,
Moss Icon,
John Cale,
The Black Dice,
Eve St. Jones,
Robert Wyatt,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Moleskins,
John Lydon,
Negative Approach,
Infiniti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Slits,
Bad Manners,
OOIOO,
Ultra Naté,
Delon & Dalcan,
X-102,
The Knickerbockers,
Banda Bassotti,
Adolescents,
Warsaw,
Suburban Knight,
Ossler,
Model 500,
Groovy Waters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fluxion,
Ludus,
Basic Channel,
Section 25,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.