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 Zambia and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Unrelated Segments to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Echospace,
X-102,
Erasure,
Funkadelic,
Bad Manners,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eurythmics,
Janne Schatter,
Tomorrow,
Rhythm & Sound,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barrington Levy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Subhumans,
Outsiders,
Soul II Soul,
The Leaves,
CMW,
The Cowsills,
Henry Cow,
Derrick May,
cv313,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pagans,
Davy DMX,
One Last Wish,
The Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Arcadia,
Freddie Wadling,
Altered Images,
Dawn Penn,
Cameo,
Grauzone,
Jerry Gold Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Black Moon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Red Krayola,
Ten City,
World's Most,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q65,
Black Pus,
Tres Demented,
Nils Olav,
Bizarre Inc.,
China Crisis,
Ken Boothe,
The Skatalites,
Unrelated Segments,
Adolescents,
Khruangbin,
Max Romeo,
JFA,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.