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 Guinea-Bissau and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 The Modern Lovers to the crunk 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eden Ahbez,
The Evens,
Vladislav Delay,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Spoonie Gee,
Harry Pussy,
The Human League,
Steve Hackett,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dark Day,
Soft Machine,
Camouflage,
Nas,
David Axelrod,
The Mojo Men,
The Smiths,
Robert Görl,
The Trojans,
Skriet,
The Wake,
June Days,
Jacques Brel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agitation Free,
Ultimate Spinach,
Man Eating Sloth,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Toni Rubio,
Piero Umiliani,
Lower 48,
Curtis Mayfield,
A Certain Ratio,
Scratch Acid,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Althea and Donna,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Amon Düül II,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Desert Stars,
Grauzone,
Stereo Dub,
Ludus,
The Misunderstood,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Whodini,
The New Christs,
Buzzcocks,
Yazoo,
Symarip,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Metal Thangz,
Robert Wyatt,
Youth Brigade,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.