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 France and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Detroit Cobras to the rock 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Hood,
Wasted Youth,
Stereo Dub,
Charles Mingus,
Icehouse,
Outsiders,
Albert Ayler,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed,
K-Klass,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cowsills,
Sarah Menescal,
The Birthday Party,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
D'Angelo,
MC5,
Lindisfarne,
Ludus,
Little Man,
The Modern Lovers,
The Residents,
DJ Sneak,
Niagra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Crime,
The Skatalites,
Average White Band,
Mandrill,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers,
Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
China Crisis,
Vladislav Delay,
Graham Central Station,
Connie Case,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Arab on Radar,
Mantronix,
The Trojans,
Yusef Lateef,
Supertramp,
Brass Construction,
Das Ding,
Technova,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Japan,
the Sonics,
the Bar-Kays,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delta 5,
Soulsonic Force,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ken Boothe,
Quantec,
Black Sheep,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.