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 Lebanon and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 Cal Tjader to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Q65,
Quantec,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Severed Heads,
Soft Cell,
Agent Orange,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Flash Fearless,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Essential Logic,
Oblivians,
Fluxion,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Cure,
Amon Düül,
Neil Young,
Bobby Womack,
Rakim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sonic Youth,
The Toasters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kevin Saunderson,
DNA,
The Slackers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gregory Isaacs,
Max Romeo,
Judy Mowatt,
Sight & Sound,
Idris Muhammad,
Leonard Cohen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Modern Lovers,
Interpol,
Swell Maps,
Juan Atkins,
Danielle Patucci,
Gerry Rafferty,
Matthew Bourne,
The Blackbyrds,
The Dead C,
Crooked Eye,
R.M.O.,
Joe Finger,
Soft Machine,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dirtbombs,
The Golliwogs,
Minor Threat,
The Moody Blues,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Inner City,
Lee Hazlewood,
Technova,
Gong,
Wings,
Monks,
Flipper,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.