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 Gabon 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Hashim to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Connie Case,
Khruangbin,
The Moleskins,
Intrusion,
Boz Scaggs,
D'Angelo,
The Techniques,
Idris Muhammad,
Cymande,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alison Limerick,
Colin Newman,
Zero Boys,
Stiv Bators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Echospace,
Man Parrish,
Faust,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bob Dylan,
June Days,
Lungfish,
Skriet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cure,
Kool Moe Dee,
T.S.O.L.,
JFA,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Con Funk Shun,
Nas,
X-102,
Ludus,
Blancmange,
Nirvana,
Henry Cow,
Shoche,
Mad Mike,
Black Pus,
Roxette,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
8 Eyed Spy,
These Immortal Souls,
Leonard Cohen,
Dead Boys,
Underground Resistance,
Chris Corsano,
Fluxion,
The Flesh Eaters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Flipper,
Eric Copeland,
Hardrive,
Bootsy Collins,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.