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 Uganda and from Spokane.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Pulsallama to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
China Crisis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brothers Johnson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Moon,
Roy Ayers,
Magazine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mandrill,
Matthew Bourne,
Erykah Badu,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dual Sessions,
The Five Americans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Grass Roots,
Hasil Adkins,
The Neon Judgement,
Goldenarms,
Barry Ungar,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Last Poets,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chrome,
Scratch Acid,
The Real Kids,
The Names,
Kaleidoscope,
The Skatalites,
Tears for Fears,
Camberwell Now,
Scion,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Symarip,
Kas Product,
Animal Collective,
Fad Gadget,
Alison Limerick,
Carl Craig,
Young Marble Giants,
Sixth Finger,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
B.T. Express,
Laurel Aitken,
Rosa Yemen,
Masters at Work,
The Red Krayola,
LL Cool J,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rod Modell,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Smiths,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Busters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.