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 Israel and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum 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 Kool Moe Dee to the grime 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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
The Raincoats,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joe Finger,
Jimmy McGriff,
Royal Trux,
World's Most,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Radiohead,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang of Four,
Mad Mike,
Eurythmics,
Derrick May,
The Blues Magoos,
June Days,
Fad Gadget,
Alice Coltrane,
Sällskapet,
Tom Boy,
Lower 48,
John Coltrane,
Shuggie Otis,
Echospace,
Quantec,
Gabor Szabo,
Flipper,
Jandek,
Pantaleimon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ludus,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Sherman,
Rekid,
Sun City Girls,
Janne Schatter,
Colin Newman,
Cecil Taylor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radio Birdman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rod Modell,
the Soft Cell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aaron Thompson,
Duran Duran,
Thompson Twins,
Television,
Negative Approach,
The Doors,
Rites of Spring,
Derrick Morgan,
Kayak,
Sparks,
Leonard Cohen,
Cybotron,
The Velvet Underground,
Symarip,
Yusef Lateef,
Malaria!,
Cal Tjader,
Rakim,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.