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 Slovenia and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 harpsichord 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Deakin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wasted Youth,
Bad Manners,
Crooked Eye,
Radiohead,
New Age Steppers,
The Kinks,
the Human League,
Connie Case,
Bootsy Collins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Babytalk,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Dead C,
Liliput,
DJ Sneak,
Roxy Music,
Alton Ellis,
Michelle Simonal,
Minutemen,
Mars,
Con Funk Shun,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun Ra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Steve Hackett,
Faust,
CMW,
Depeche Mode,
Sonic Youth,
The Buckinghams,
The Dirtbombs,
Reagan Youth,
Jacques Brel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Blues Magoos,
Soul II Soul,
Loose Ends,
Scott Walker,
Sex Pistols,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lower 48,
The Vogues,
Agent Orange,
Joey Negro,
Black Bananas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Neu!,
Ronnie Foster,
The Last Poets,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Faraquet,
Nico,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Real Kids,
Ultra Naté,
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.