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 Kenya 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Move to the jazz 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Malaria!,
Lalo Schifrin,
LL Cool J,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The J.B.'s,
The Cramps,
Sex Pistols,
The Dirtbombs,
Man Parrish,
Harmonia,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Moon,
Eden Ahbez,
La Düsseldorf,
The Residents,
Piero Umiliani,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crooked Eye,
The Saints,
Rites of Spring,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boz Scaggs,
The Birthday Party,
Roxette,
Sonic Youth,
Pagans,
Rhythm & Sound,
Todd Terry,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bootsy Collins,
The Moleskins,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dead Boys,
The United States of America,
Pantytec,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Groovy Waters,
Gong,
Maleditus Sound,
The Tremeloes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Average White Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lou Christie,
The Blackbyrds,
Basic Channel,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sällskapet,
Scan 7,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Whodini,
Prince Buster,
The Monks,
Amazonics,
D'Angelo,
Urselle,
H. Thieme,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yaz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.