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 Iran and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cameo to the jazz 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Kayak,
Avey Tare,
Bauhaus,
F. McDonald,
The Searchers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fall,
a-ha,
Essential Logic,
The Music Machine,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-102,
A Certain Ratio,
The Tremeloes,
Marine Girls,
Tommy Roe,
Fela Kuti,
Nico,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
Bluetip,
Kool Moe Dee,
Davy DMX,
Sonic Youth,
Howard Jones,
The Techniques,
Erykah Badu,
L. Decosne,
Ludus,
The J.B.'s,
Stereo Dub,
The Velvet Underground,
T. Rex,
Judy Mowatt,
The Gories,
Ultra Naté,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cybotron,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Yaz,
K-Klass,
Max Romeo,
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Dead Boys,
The Slackers,
The Toasters,
Sällskapet,
The Modern Lovers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Spandau Ballet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Terry Callier,
Japan,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.