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 Cameroon and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Salvador 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Panda Bear to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
E-Dancer,
The Dead C,
Minny Pops,
Q65,
Sister Nancy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Todd Terry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cameo,
Ralphi Rosario,
China Crisis,
Blossom Toes,
Godley & Creme,
Trumans Water,
The Doors,
Q and Not U,
DJ Sneak,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Deadbeat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang of Four,
Stiv Bators,
Niagra,
Alison Limerick,
The Victims,
Camberwell Now,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sam Rivers,
Bad Manners,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marvin Gaye,
Glenn Branca,
The Techniques,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Magazine,
Fear,
Easy Going,
The Cowsills,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Dirtbombs,
The Skatalites,
Blake Baxter,
Slick Rick,
Jacob Miller,
Max Romeo,
Agitation Free,
Scan 7,
Mission of Burma,
Howard Jones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Icehouse,
Rakim,
Main Source,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.