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 Germany and from Johannesburg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Flash Fearless 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Avey Tare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
A Certain Ratio,
Nas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Anthony Braxton,
Audionom,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül II,
ABC,
Deakin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Soul II Soul,
Nils Olav,
Bad Manners,
Adolescents,
Smog,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Severed Heads,
The Blues Magoos,
Archie Shepp,
The Dirtbombs,
UT,
cv313,
The Electric Prunes,
The Kinks,
the Sonics,
The Human League,
Donny Hathaway,
Tomorrow,
Dual Sessions,
Zapp,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lindisfarne,
Echospace,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gong,
The Divine Comedy,
Minny Pops,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gang of Four,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Newcleus,
Darondo,
Nick Fraelich,
Alphaville,
The Fortunes,
Guru Guru,
the Bar-Kays,
Morten Harket,
Brand Nubian,
Lakeside,
Shuggie Otis,
Monks,
The Velvet Underground,
Shoche,
Brick,
The Misunderstood,
Cymande,
The Dead C,
Quantec,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.