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 Djibouti and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the funk 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
This Heat,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aural Exciters,
Harry Pussy,
The Human League,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Japan,
Pantytec,
Ultimate Spinach,
Grey Daturas,
Skaos,
Vainqueur,
the Association,
Rufus Thomas,
Glenn Branca,
Tommy Roe,
Letta Mbulu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Joey Negro,
Pole,
Yazoo,
Lalann,
Josef K,
Stetsasonic,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
KRS-One,
One Last Wish,
Sun Ra,
The Electric Prunes,
Johnny Clarke,
Johnny Osbourne,
Steve Hackett,
Max Romeo,
DNA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Human League,
Alton Ellis,
Electric Prunes,
Brass Construction,
The Raincoats,
The Pop Group,
The Moleskins,
Panda Bear,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hot Snakes,
Sonny Sharrock,
In Retrospect,
Shuggie Otis,
Sarah Menescal,
The Music Machine,
Whodini,
Slave,
Masters at Work,
Harmonia,
The Dead C,
Byron Stingily,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.