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 Iceland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 David Bowie 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 Idris Muhammad to the dance 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blossom Toes,
The Slackers,
La Düsseldorf,
8 Eyed Spy,
X-Ray Spex,
Outsiders,
Al Stewart,
Bizarre Inc.,
kango's stein massive,
The Birthday Party,
Malaria!,
Negative Approach,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
In Retrospect,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Yusef Lateef,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Monochrome Set,
Joey Negro,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul II Soul,
Sandy B,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stiv Bators,
Soulsonic Force,
Bill Wells,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scratch Acid,
Prince Buster,
Joe Finger,
DJ Style,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang Starr,
Idris Muhammad,
Sound Behaviour,
Marmalade,
Whodini,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cybotron,
Wire,
Au Pairs,
Andrew Hill,
Lindisfarne,
The Skatalites,
Main Source,
Mission of Burma,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Cale,
The Flesh Eaters,
Quando Quango,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fluxion,
Faraquet,
Make Up,
The Smiths,
Nas,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.