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 Guyana and from Toronto.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Chocolate Watch Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Mojo Men,
Sex Pistols,
Babytalk,
Sound Behaviour,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
R.M.O.,
Tom Boy,
Nas,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Pus,
Marine Girls,
Technova,
Underground Resistance,
Skriet,
Scientists,
Bobby Sherman,
The Gories,
Khruangbin,
Gong,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Tears for Fears,
David Bowie,
Scratch Acid,
Supertramp,
The Kinks,
Soul II Soul,
Soft Machine,
Pharoah Sanders,
Flash Fearless,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jacques Brel,
Bauhaus,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dave Clark Five,
Altered Images,
Godley & Creme,
Reagan Youth,
the Bar-Kays,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Zapp,
Boredoms,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crooked Eye,
Blossom Toes,
KRS-One,
Yaz,
The Star Department,
Wire,
Barbara Tucker,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mr. Review,
Massinfluence,
The Fortunes,
The Neon Judgement,
The Skatalites,
Judy Mowatt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gregory Isaacs,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.