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 Montenegro and from Salvador.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Slits to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joy Division,
The Names,
Cymande,
Piero Umiliani,
Pantytec,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kaleidoscope,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marine Girls,
Soulsonic Force,
X-Ray Spex,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lindisfarne,
Royal Trux,
Scan 7,
Derrick Morgan,
Flipper,
cv313,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Peter and Kerry,
The Flesh Eaters,
Todd Terry,
the Sonics,
Althea and Donna,
Alice Coltrane,
the Germs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Laurel Aitken,
The Moody Blues,
Rhythm & Sound,
Basic Channel,
Crispian St. Peters,
Animal Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radio Birdman,
Aural Exciters,
Shuggie Otis,
Babytalk,
the Human League,
Procol Harum,
MC5,
Hoover,
The Vogues,
Flamin' Groovies,
Clear Light,
Mantronix,
Patti Smith,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobby Sherman,
Kenny Larkin,
Reuben Wilson,
Urselle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rotary Connection,
The Wake,
Rapeman,
Janne Schatter,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.