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 Swaziland 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Wire to the funk 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Deakin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sister Nancy,
Shoche,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Knickerbockers,
Model 500,
Ten City,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bang On A Can,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Gladiators,
Magazine,
Au Pairs,
Royal Trux,
Easy Going,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fuzztones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Erasure,
AZ,
Bob Dylan,
Letta Mbulu,
Banda Bassotti,
Marmalade,
Leonard Cohen,
Electric Prunes,
Sugar Minott,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Tremeloes,
Gabor Szabo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Alison Limerick,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
Average White Band,
Icehouse,
Donny Hathaway,
Eli Mardock,
X-102,
Tom Boy,
The Vogues,
Black Moon,
The Residents,
Hardrive,
Don Cherry,
Quantec,
Bobby Sherman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nik Kershaw,
E-Dancer,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.