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 Bahamas and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Donald Fagen 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 Marmalade to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All The Gladiators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Aswad,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cure,
Ken Boothe,
Juan Atkins,
The Motions,
June of 44,
Reagan Youth,
Rotary Connection,
Byron Stingily,
Porter Ricks,
Quando Quango,
Grauzone,
Andrew Hill,
Spandau Ballet,
Supertramp,
Joe Smooth,
Josef K,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cheater Slicks,
Visage,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Litter,
Wings,
Sonny Sharrock,
48th St. Collective,
Hashim,
Unrelated Segments,
The Last Poets,
Goldenarms,
Aural Exciters,
Mad Mike,
These Immortal Souls,
Pulsallama,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mission of Burma,
Guru Guru,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fad Gadget,
Maurizio,
Procol Harum,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ultra Naté,
Rakim,
Matthew Halsall,
The Searchers,
World's Most,
Chris & Cosey,
Ponytail,
The Slackers,
Icehouse,
Eric Dolphy,
Tres Demented,
OOIOO,
Jimmy McGriff,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Blues Magoos,
Amon Düül II,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.