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 Luxembourg and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Scan 7 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Con Funk Shun,
CMW,
Crooked Eye,
Cymande,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fatback Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Gabor Szabo,
Yazoo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crime,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Ice-T,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bronski Beat,
Grey Daturas,
Sparks,
Dead Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Section 25,
Hashim,
The Saints,
Brand Nubian,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eli Mardock,
Sugar Minott,
Ken Boothe,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stetsasonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Babytalk,
Bush Tetras,
Cluster,
Gang of Four,
The Moody Blues,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
kango's stein massive,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Victims,
Michelle Simonal,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fluxion,
Blancmange,
Lakeside,
Au Pairs,
The Last Poets,
The Vogues,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.