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 Fiji and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
David Axelrod,
Rufus Thomas,
Gregory Isaacs,
Radio Birdman,
Monks,
MC5,
Subhumans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Donald Byrd,
Mo-Dettes,
Erykah Badu,
Bootsy Collins,
The Fugs,
Black Flag,
Barrington Levy,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Slits,
Pantytec,
Glenn Branca,
Peter and Kerry,
Pole,
Altered Images,
Henry Cow,
Popol Vuh,
Make Up,
Drexciya,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Halsall,
Stiv Bators,
Jandek,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eve St. Jones,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
FM Einheit,
The J.B.'s,
Scott Walker,
Sarah Menescal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Davy DMX,
Essential Logic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
Parry Music,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultra Naté,
The Moody Blues,
Rites of Spring,
Second Layer,
Q65,
The United States of America,
Absolute Body Control,
Suburban Knight,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fugazi,
Fluxion,
The Zeros,
Rosa Yemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.