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 Benin and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 T.S.O.L. to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth 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?
Graham Central Station,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
One Last Wish,
Joy Division,
Lou Christie,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fear,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Seeds,
Inner City,
Liliput,
Ultra Naté,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Matthew Halsall,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ronan,
Rod Modell,
June of 44,
Aswad,
Tropical Tobacco,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Average White Band,
Janne Schatter,
Gabor Szabo,
The Smiths,
Colin Newman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Television,
Donald Byrd,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Second Layer,
The Buckinghams,
Loose Ends,
Circle Jerks,
Bad Manners,
The Slackers,
Half Japanese,
UT,
Minnie Riperton,
The Vogues,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flipper,
Minny Pops,
Lungfish,
a-ha,
Scan 7,
Eurythmics,
Unrelated Segments,
OOIOO,
Bobby Womack,
Faust,
Unwound,
The Gap Band,
Magazine,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Funkadelic,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.