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 Bahamas and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe 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 Accadde A to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick Morgan,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gun Club,
Kaleidoscope,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Icehouse,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marvin Gaye,
Ornette Coleman,
T. Rex,
Ohio Players,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nico,
Camberwell Now,
Marmalade,
Yusef Lateef,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Can,
Tim Buckley,
Idris Muhammad,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Malaria!,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Anthony Braxton,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joyce Sims,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ituana,
Animal Collective,
Section 25,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Flash Fearless,
One Last Wish,
Pere Ubu,
Joe Finger,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Davy DMX,
Inner City,
Fear,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pylon,
Donald Byrd,
The Move,
Prince Buster,
Cal Tjader,
Essential Logic,
The Slits,
Todd Terry,
Terry Callier,
Shoche,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.