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 Italy and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare 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 The Victims to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
The Real Kids,
Fear,
Stetsasonic,
Steve Hackett,
Half Japanese,
Curtis Mayfield,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barry Ungar,
The Motions,
DJ Sneak,
The Fuzztones,
Nils Olav,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
R.M.O.,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kas Product,
U.S. Maple,
Nik Kershaw,
Technova,
Khruangbin,
Fluxion,
Intrusion,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
David Bowie,
Funky Four + One,
Rites of Spring,
The Count Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Monks,
Outsiders,
Charles Mingus,
Livin' Joy,
Faust,
Black Bananas,
Grey Daturas,
Harpers Bizarre,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Raincoats,
In Retrospect,
Jeff Mills,
Joe Smooth,
June Days,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Morten Harket,
The Human League,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vainqueur,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joensuu 1685,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nico,
Smog,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
JFA,
Cluster,
Echospace,
The Toasters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.