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 Nepal and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
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 Connie Case to the techno 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Liliput,
Minnie Riperton,
Siglo XX,
Duran Duran,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Max Romeo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantytec,
Kerri Chandler,
Pierre Henry,
Amon Düül II,
Goldenarms,
Wally Richardson,
Yaz,
LL Cool J,
Oblivians,
The Cramps,
Scott Walker,
Absolute Body Control,
Franke,
Quadrant,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Saints,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Mummies,
Essential Logic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Doors,
The Divine Comedy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pulsallama,
New Age Steppers,
The American Breed,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
JFA,
Charles Mingus,
Graham Central Station,
Traffic Nightmare,
Section 25,
Patti Smith,
Dual Sessions,
Moby Grape,
Thompson Twins,
The Flesh Eaters,
Deepchord,
Lightning Bolt,
Crash Course in Science,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Los Fastidios,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Livin' Joy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Lydon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Circle Jerks,
Ornette Coleman,
Technova,
Andrew Hill,
Scratch Acid,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.