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 Bulgaria and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ludus 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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Radiopuhelimet,
OOIOO,
Man Eating Sloth,
Moss Icon,
Mo-Dettes,
Barry Ungar,
Chris & Cosey,
Von Mondo,
The Busters,
KRS-One,
Loose Ends,
The Shadows of Knight,
Maurizio,
Derrick May,
Sam Rivers,
Wire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Todd Rundgren,
Fatback Band,
Infiniti,
The Electric Prunes,
Sällskapet,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Agitation Free,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rekid,
Stetsasonic,
Stiv Bators,
The Moleskins,
Urselle,
Quadrant,
Sugar Minott,
Jawbox,
F. McDonald,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dennis Brown,
Warsaw,
Shuggie Otis,
Scion,
Alison Limerick,
The Doobie Brothers,
Minny Pops,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Knickerbockers,
Guru Guru,
Kurtis Blow,
The Wake,
Lalann,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funky Four + One,
Yaz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jandek,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Simply Red,
Ten City,
The American Breed,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.