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 Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 mellotron 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 Essential Logic to the crunk 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
The New Christs,
Soul II Soul,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Livin' Joy,
The Neon Judgement,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cameo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mantronix,
Lower 48,
Severed Heads,
Supertramp,
Boz Scaggs,
Sex Pistols,
Spandau Ballet,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Cale,
Moby Grape,
Sam Rivers,
Excepter,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Wake,
Tomorrow,
Con Funk Shun,
The Monochrome Set,
The United States of America,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Brand Nubian,
Babytalk,
Andrew Hill,
Juan Atkins,
Crispy Ambulance,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Arcadia,
Junior Murvin,
Wally Richardson,
Godley & Creme,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Yazoo,
K-Klass,
Blake Baxter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scion,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
B.T. Express,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Divine Comedy,
Los Fastidios,
Funkadelic,
Ponytail,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.