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 Guinea-Bissau and from Accra.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jerry's Kids 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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
The Doors,
Ohio Players,
In Retrospect,
Barbara Tucker,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nils Olav,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rosa Yemen,
Essential Logic,
Pere Ubu,
Minutemen,
Grey Daturas,
Arab on Radar,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Martian,
Motorama,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Audionom,
K-Klass,
John Foxx,
Babytalk,
Brothers Johnson,
Janne Schatter,
kango's stein massive,
Technova,
the Germs,
Eric Copeland,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pylon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Popol Vuh,
The Remains,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Colin Newman,
the Bar-Kays,
Gastr Del Sol,
Judy Mowatt,
The Stooges,
The Evens,
The Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang On A Can,
X-102,
Susan Cadogan,
Minor Threat,
Skaos,
Stereo Dub,
Yellowson,
Ponytail,
Eve St. Jones,
The Techniques,
Eli Mardock,
Althea and Donna,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.