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 Brunei and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 The Techniques 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Skatalites,
Moss Icon,
Qualms,
Skriet,
The Fugs,
Young Marble Giants,
David Axelrod,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ponytail,
Traffic Nightmare,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dennis Brown,
E-Dancer,
Black Flag,
Aural Exciters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Buzzcocks,
ABBA,
Steve Hackett,
Shuggie Otis,
Joe Finger,
Ohio Players,
Althea and Donna,
UT,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Evens,
Surgeon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cabaret Voltaire,
X-Ray Spex,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Searchers,
Pere Ubu,
Index,
The Gun Club,
Soft Cell,
Desert Stars,
The Selecter,
Ornette Coleman,
Erykah Badu,
Kenny Larkin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Royal Trux,
Matthew Halsall,
Rufus Thomas,
Depeche Mode,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cal Tjader,
Curtis Mayfield,
Barry Ungar,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Can,
Stereo Dub,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Pretty Things,
Pierre Henry,
Unrelated Segments,
Brand Nubian,
The Smiths,
Deadbeat,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.