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 Niger and from Accra.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes 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 Bill Wells to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pantytec,
Minny Pops,
Kool Moe Dee,
Robert Wyatt,
David McCallum,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Mummies,
Negative Approach,
the Normal,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Hashim,
Nirvana,
Interpol,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roxy Music,
Patti Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Skarface,
The Selecter,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Au Pairs,
The Fire Engines,
Anakelly,
Swell Maps,
Chrome,
Leonard Cohen,
The Blues Magoos,
Mo-Dettes,
Q65,
The Gap Band,
Depeche Mode,
Jerry's Kids,
Eden Ahbez,
Rosa Yemen,
Eric Dolphy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kas Product,
Shoche,
Mark Hollis,
Howard Jones,
Rites of Spring,
Lungfish,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cal Tjader,
The Pretty Things,
The Golliwogs,
Brass Construction,
Lightning Bolt,
China Crisis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Piero Umiliani,
Visage,
Scott Walker,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.