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 Tuvalu and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Five Americans to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Lalann,
Sun City Girls,
Charles Mingus,
Mad Mike,
Aswad,
Delta 5,
Pole,
The Cure,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Selecter,
John Foxx,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lungfish,
World's Most,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stetsasonic,
Swell Maps,
The Names,
Outsiders,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Smiths,
Tommy Roe,
Jeff Mills,
Soul II Soul,
Althea and Donna,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Man Parrish,
Ohio Players,
Visage,
Brand Nubian,
Fatback Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Unrelated Segments,
Clear Light,
DJ Sneak,
the Association,
D'Angelo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Con Funk Shun,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sparks,
The Mojo Men,
Hashim,
Ronnie Foster,
Toni Rubio,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Young Rascals,
Swans,
Inner City,
Eden Ahbez,
The Vogues,
Black Flag,
Terrestrial Tones,
Skarface,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.