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 Ireland and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba 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 Agitation Free to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Simply Red record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Mojo Men,
Funkadelic,
Toni Rubio,
Scientists,
Reuben Wilson,
Skaos,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Motorama,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed,
Junior Murvin,
Maurizio,
Moebius,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hashim,
Barry Ungar,
The Offenders,
Wally Richardson,
Cameo,
Connie Case,
David Axelrod,
Steve Hackett,
Public Image Ltd.,
Danielle Patucci,
Spandau Ballet,
The Gun Club,
AZ,
The Associates,
The Raincoats,
Neil Young,
These Immortal Souls,
Janne Schatter,
Glenn Branca,
New Order,
Silicon Teens,
Smog,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Donald Byrd,
The Remains,
Matthew Bourne,
Judy Mowatt,
The Skatalites,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
June Days,
Suburban Knight,
Dennis Brown,
Lindisfarne,
Sarah Menescal,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
H. Thieme,
Idris Muhammad,
Rapeman,
Qualms,
Schoolly D,
Gichy Dan,
JFA,
The Names,
Althea and Donna,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.