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 Kiribati and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Michael McDonald 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 Gang of Four to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Fort Wilson Riot,
June Days,
Easy Going,
Suicide,
In Retrospect,
the Sonics,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
World's Most,
The Busters,
Man Parrish,
The Grass Roots,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
Tomorrow,
The Searchers,
Kerri Chandler,
Bluetip,
Joe Smooth,
Cheater Slicks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marmalade,
Minor Threat,
Sonny Sharrock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zapp,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Robert Wyatt,
The Martian,
Flipper,
UT,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Circle Jerks,
Marc Almond,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pylon,
Sister Nancy,
MC5,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Idris Muhammad,
James White and The Blacks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eli Mardock,
Henry Cow,
The Tremeloes,
The Electric Prunes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Yazoo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crash Course in Science,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Cell,
Scott Walker,
The American Breed,
The Slits,
Smog, Smog, Smog, Smog.
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.