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 Jordan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin 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 Cal Tjader to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Tommy Roe,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Alice Coltrane,
Fear,
Zapp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Clear Light,
Amazonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
Smog,
Anakelly,
Kaleidoscope,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camberwell Now,
Moebius,
Nirvana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Moon,
Ohio Players,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Sheep,
ABBA,
Qualms,
Con Funk Shun,
The Slits,
The Flesh Eaters,
Graham Central Station,
Marcia Griffiths,
Theoretical Girls,
Sonic Youth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
E-Dancer,
Black Pus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
June of 44,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Hill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agent Orange,
Television,
Iggy Pop,
B.T. Express,
Country Teasers,
Echospace,
Ronnie Foster,
Leonard Cohen,
Gang Starr,
Porter Ricks,
The Motions,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Monks,
The Stooges,
Alton Ellis,
Cheater Slicks,
Hardrive,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Massinfluence,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.