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 Zimbabwe and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 arpeggiator 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 Q65 to the rap 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Liliput,
The Moleskins,
Cecil Taylor,
Aural Exciters,
The Beau Brummels,
Arcadia,
Masters at Work,
Royal Trux,
Flipper,
Byron Stingily,
Massinfluence,
Tomorrow,
Organ,
Pulsallama,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ronnie Foster,
Harpers Bizarre,
kango's stein massive,
Joe Finger,
Gastr Del Sol,
Max Romeo,
Easy Going,
These Immortal Souls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marc Almond,
Monks,
The Pop Group,
the Association,
The Selecter,
Underground Resistance,
World's Most,
David McCallum,
The Names,
The Cure,
Boredoms,
Flash Fearless,
La Düsseldorf,
Television,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DJ Style,
The Gun Club,
Smog,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Birthday Party,
Guru Guru,
Babytalk,
Howard Jones,
Average White Band,
Duran Duran,
T.S.O.L.,
Heaven 17,
Public Enemy,
Eve St. Jones,
June of 44,
The Angels of Light,
The Monochrome Set,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gabor Szabo,
Excepter,
Hashim,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.