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 Madagascar and from Copenhagen.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Johnny Osbourne to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Skatalites,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Yellowson,
John Coltrane,
The Fortunes,
Magazine,
The Angels of Light,
Nick Fraelich,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Shoche,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
MC5,
Skarface,
Donald Byrd,
Radiopuhelimet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Young Rascals,
Robert Hood,
Cheater Slicks,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Evens,
Yaz,
Simply Red,
Mr. Review,
The Moleskins,
Rufus Thomas,
Crash Course in Science,
Soft Cell,
The Divine Comedy,
Mars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Robert Wyatt,
Harmonia,
Camouflage,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Quantec,
The Martian,
Man Parrish,
Gang of Four,
the Soft Cell,
ABBA,
Little Man,
The Zeros,
The Names,
Piero Umiliani,
Oneida,
Henry Cow,
Maleditus Sound,
Godley & Creme,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fire Engines,
Jawbox,
Country Teasers,
The Fuzztones,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Faust,
Crime,
Sexual Harrassment,
Black Sheep,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.