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 Seychelles and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Kenny Larkin,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Buckinghams,
kango's stein massive,
Nils Olav,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gories,
Tres Demented,
Pylon,
The American Breed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pet Shop Boys,
Marc Almond,
Accadde A,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barry Ungar,
FM Einheit,
Cal Tjader,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bill Wells,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scrapy,
Maleditus Sound,
Laurel Aitken,
Malaria!,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Davy DMX,
Amon Düül II,
The Divine Comedy,
Hardrive,
Eric Copeland,
Pharoah Sanders,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nik Kershaw,
Michelle Simonal,
John Cale,
James White and The Blacks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Masters at Work,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
New Age Steppers,
Bobby Byrd,
Mantronix,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pantaleimon,
Gang Starr,
Yusef Lateef,
Terrestrial Tones,
Joe Smooth,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.