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 Tonga and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Barclay James Harvest to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Sonic Youth,
Tim Buckley,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Moss Icon,
Kerri Chandler,
Oblivians,
Marine Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
New York Dolls,
The Walker Brothers,
cv313,
Joe Finger,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zero Boys,
Zapp,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Maleditus Sound,
Andrew Hill,
Lower 48,
Tommy Roe,
Visage,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Electric Prunes,
The Gladiators,
Man Eating Sloth,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter and Kerry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Desert Stars,
Panda Bear,
Ultravox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Seeds,
Chris & Cosey,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Gun Club,
Sly & The Family Stone,
X-Ray Spex,
Dead Boys,
Stiv Bators,
Los Fastidios,
U.S. Maple,
The Trojans,
The Electric Prunes,
Scientists,
Bill Near,
The Moody Blues,
The Star Department,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.