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 Mali and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Lou Reed 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 Boz Scaggs to the rap 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Schoolly D,
Crime,
Curtis Mayfield,
Vainqueur,
Tears for Fears,
The Slackers,
Skarface,
Skriet,
The Blues Magoos,
The Vogues,
Flamin' Groovies,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ituana,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Music Machine,
Anthony Braxton,
PIL,
Metal Thangz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delta 5,
Minnie Riperton,
Warsaw,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mission of Burma,
Dennis Brown,
Roy Ayers,
Michelle Simonal,
Harry Pussy,
AZ,
Rotary Connection,
the Normal,
Eddi Front,
Public Enemy,
Blake Baxter,
Aswad,
Quadrant,
The Black Dice,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Soft Cell,
One Last Wish,
Marvin Gaye,
Shuggie Otis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barry Ungar,
Bauhaus,
Suburban Knight,
Graham Central Station,
China Crisis,
Main Source,
Interpol,
the Slits,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rufus Thomas,
The Count Five,
The Move,
Cybotron,
La Düsseldorf,
Al Stewart,
Erykah Badu,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.