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 Botswana and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 linndrum 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 Max Romeo to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Prince Buster,
X-102,
Sugar Minott,
MDC,
The Mummies,
Scratch Acid,
The Index,
New Order,
Inner City,
Mantronix,
Angry Samoans,
The Velvet Underground,
Letta Mbulu,
Groovy Waters,
Shuggie Otis,
David McCallum,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ohio Players,
T. Rex,
Zero Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marc Almond,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cabaret Voltaire,
B.T. Express,
Sonic Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Magma,
Main Source,
The Smiths,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Bourne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
KRS-One,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Womack,
Skriet,
Patti Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sällskapet,
Rosa Yemen,
Donald Byrd,
The Detroit Cobras,
Animal Collective,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Invisible,
the Sonics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Evens,
Spandau Ballet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Qualms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kevin Saunderson,
Suicide,
Slave,
Delta 5,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Absolute Body Control,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.