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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fluxion to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Television,
Boz Scaggs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiohead,
Rhythm & Sound,
Quantec,
Scion,
Laurel Aitken,
The Young Rascals,
Hashim,
OOIOO,
Severed Heads,
World's Most,
Malaria!,
The Zeros,
Patti Smith,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Red Krayola,
Leonard Cohen,
Talk Talk,
X-Ray Spex,
Peter and Kerry,
Crash Course in Science,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Selecter,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nick Fraelich,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alice Coltrane,
The Litter,
Dennis Brown,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Sound,
The Kinks,
Franke,
Delon & Dalcan,
Harry Pussy,
Judy Mowatt,
Angry Samoans,
The United States of America,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Raincoats,
Faraquet,
MDC,
Soulsonic Force,
Eurythmics,
Qualms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Newcleus,
Lalann,
Monks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Arab on Radar,
Stereo Dub,
PIL,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.