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 Belarus and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum 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 Pussy Galore to the grime 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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
The Mummies,
Stiv Bators,
Public Enemy,
Agent Orange,
The Skatalites,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bootsy Collins,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delta 5,
Eric Copeland,
Davy DMX,
Grey Daturas,
Sam Rivers,
Aaron Thompson,
Ornette Coleman,
Saccharine Trust,
Graham Central Station,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blues Magoos,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cramps,
Lou Christie,
Camberwell Now,
Bauhaus,
Gabor Szabo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Doobie Brothers,
Unrelated Segments,
H. Thieme,
Faust,
New York Dolls,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gerry Rafferty,
R.M.O.,
Eli Mardock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sister Nancy,
Roy Ayers,
Cal Tjader,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pagans,
F. McDonald,
The Young Rascals,
Darondo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Doors,
The Names,
Soul Sonic Force,
Quantec,
The Divine Comedy,
the Germs,
The Cure,
Terry Callier,
The Black Dice,
Can,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.