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 Benin and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba 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 The Dave Clark Five to the disco 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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
The Monochrome Set,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Techniques,
Joey Negro,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Toasters,
Black Bananas,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Cramps,
Sam Rivers,
Roger Hodgson,
Ludus,
Silicon Teens,
New Order,
Wally Richardson,
The Five Americans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
48th St. Collective,
Chris & Cosey,
Wings,
The Last Poets,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Leaves,
the Slits,
Fear,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Slick Rick,
Delta 5,
Todd Terry,
Alphaville,
John Lydon,
Groovy Waters,
Los Fastidios,
Rosa Yemen,
Sister Nancy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jerry's Kids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rufus Thomas,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roxy Music,
Joyce Sims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pantytec,
Derrick Morgan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dawn Penn,
Skriet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tom Boy,
Technova,
DJ Sneak,
Oblivians,
Stetsasonic,
Patti Smith,
Spoonie Gee,
Danielle Patucci,
Pagans,
Mr. Review,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.