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 Rwanda and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Carl Craig to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Lynne,
The Doors,
The Raincoats,
Delon & Dalcan,
Boz Scaggs,
Curtis Mayfield,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mo-Dettes,
David Axelrod,
Shuggie Otis,
Jandek,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lee Hazlewood,
R.M.O.,
Hasil Adkins,
DJ Sneak,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brick,
Josef K,
The Invisible,
Pole,
The Human League,
Sugar Minott,
Tres Demented,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gong,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barbara Tucker,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Seeds,
Audionom,
Sparks,
X-101,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Alison Limerick,
Eric Copeland,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cheater Slicks,
the Slits,
Drexciya,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wally Richardson,
the Swans,
Black Sheep,
Avey Tare,
The Offenders,
Negative Approach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Amazonics,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Almond,
Absolute Body Control,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.