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 Tajikistan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joe Smooth to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Steve Hackett,
The Gap Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
In Retrospect,
Henry Cow,
Marc Almond,
Sight & Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Supertramp,
Ten City,
Jesper Dahlback,
Alison Limerick,
Fat Boys,
Ken Boothe,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Smiths,
The Grass Roots,
The Sonics,
Visage,
Index,
Cymande,
Marvin Gaye,
Negative Approach,
Yaz,
The Toasters,
The Dead C,
Adolescents,
Sun Ra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Archie Shepp,
The Monochrome Set,
Gong,
These Immortal Souls,
Tubeway Army,
Brothers Johnson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yazoo,
Pierre Henry,
Marine Girls,
Pagans,
Fear,
Roy Ayers,
Crooked Eye,
Subhumans,
Procol Harum,
Alton Ellis,
Sugar Minott,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bronski Beat,
a-ha,
The Pop Group,
Mantronix,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
Mars,
B.T. Express,
Rod Modell,
Howard Jones,
Siglo XX,
cv313,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.