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 Canada and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Sherman,
the Sonics,
Slave,
Stetsasonic,
Nick Fraelich,
Howard Jones,
The Seeds,
Masters at Work,
The New Christs,
Oblivians,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Human League,
Amon Düül,
Essential Logic,
Ohio Players,
Ash Ra Tempel,
UT,
Eric Dolphy,
Blake Baxter,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Associates,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mandrill,
Cameo,
Khruangbin,
Adolescents,
The Divine Comedy,
Hardrive,
These Immortal Souls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Quantec,
Fatback Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Franke,
the Normal,
Stereo Dub,
Joy Division,
ABC,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kenny Larkin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Anakelly,
Dennis Brown,
Marshall Jefferson,
Max Romeo,
Vainqueur,
The Pop Group,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Massinfluence,
Alphaville,
Soft Cell,
The Star Department,
Bobby Hutcherson,
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.