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 Croatia and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gabor Szabo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Derrick Morgan,
Supertramp,
Thee Headcoats,
Cal Tjader,
Eve St. Jones,
Eddi Front,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young,
Nils Olav,
John Foxx,
La Düsseldorf,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Fall,
The Golliwogs,
Qualms,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Soft Machine,
Amazonics,
Wally Richardson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dead C,
Kurtis Blow,
Joey Negro,
D'Angelo,
Cybotron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Janne Schatter,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Niagra,
The Blackbyrds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dave Gahan,
48th St. Collective,
A Certain Ratio,
Unrelated Segments,
Ornette Coleman,
Reuben Wilson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Max Romeo,
The Misunderstood,
Flipper,
The Trojans,
Moebius,
Parry Music,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultra Naté,
Massinfluence,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
MC5,
Vladislav Delay,
Harry Pussy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Todd Terry,
Fatback Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Letta Mbulu,
Sarah Menescal,
Warren Ellis,
Prince Buster,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.