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 Guyana and from Lagos.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Sound to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Derrick Morgan,
Sun City Girls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crispy Ambulance,
Technova,
Todd Terry,
Minnie Riperton,
Tom Boy,
Roy Ayers,
Aloha Tigers,
Godley & Creme,
Symarip,
Cheater Slicks,
Crime,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Slave,
Eurythmics,
Avey Tare,
The United States of America,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Slackers,
Minny Pops,
Mary Jane Girls,
Arthur Verocai,
Depeche Mode,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scientists,
Barrington Levy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sugar Minott,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
Warren Ellis,
Outsiders,
Eric Dolphy,
Max Romeo,
The Slits,
Kevin Saunderson,
Icehouse,
The Fortunes,
Kerri Chandler,
Accadde A,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aswad,
Harpers Bizarre,
China Crisis,
Laurel Aitken,
Nas,
Lindisfarne,
Grey Daturas,
Fad Gadget,
Boogie Down Productions,
Oneida,
Juan Atkins,
The Wake,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joey Negro,
Bob Dylan,
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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.