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 Russia and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Main Source to the rock 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Skarface,
Second Layer,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sam Rivers,
Simply Red,
The Modern Lovers,
Thompson Twins,
Amazonics,
Kas Product,
Sandy B,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobby Womack,
Scott Walker,
Reuben Wilson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Barrington Levy,
John Holt,
Stereo Dub,
Outsiders,
The Star Department,
Drive Like Jehu,
PIL,
Wings,
Althea and Donna,
Niagra,
Urselle,
The Doobie Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quantec,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lightning Bolt,
Animal Collective,
Joy Division,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jawbox,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ultra Naté,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Techniques,
Juan Atkins,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Smoke,
Jacob Miller,
Organ,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pere Ubu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Infiniti,
Crispy Ambulance,
Drexciya,
D'Angelo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Public Image Ltd.,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.