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 Thailand and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Amazonics to the disco 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Second Layer,
Flash Fearless,
The Neon Judgement,
Hashim,
Reuben Wilson,
Scrapy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cymande,
Surgeon,
Marine Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Subhumans,
R.M.O.,
Pharoah Sanders,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Anthony Braxton,
LL Cool J,
Sun City Girls,
Whodini,
CMW,
Dawn Penn,
Aswad,
The Moody Blues,
The Angels of Light,
Schoolly D,
The Motions,
Malaria!,
Lindisfarne,
Frankie Knuckles,
Duran Duran,
H. Thieme,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Music Machine,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Oneida,
Lightning Bolt,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Panda Bear,
Unrelated Segments,
Ken Boothe,
Accadde A,
Roxette,
Sparks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skaos,
Gerry Rafferty,
David McCallum,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Public Image Ltd.,
Amazonics,
Ituana,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Max Romeo,
Moss Icon,
Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.