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 Algeria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yusef Lateef to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
Theoretical Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mojo Men,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Wake,
Banda Bassotti,
Gang Starr,
Rod Modell,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Electric Prunes,
Qualms,
The Monks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sun Ra,
The Raincoats,
Ludus,
Echospace,
Jacques Brel,
Michelle Simonal,
The Real Kids,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yazoo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Magma,
Ralphi Rosario,
Supertramp,
The Young Rascals,
Eric B and Rakim,
Aloha Tigers,
Stereo Dub,
Carl Craig,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Niagra,
The Saints,
Stiv Bators,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sound Behaviour,
John Foxx,
Arcadia,
Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Motions,
Blossom Toes,
Isaac Hayes,
KRS-One,
Mission of Burma,
Nils Olav,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Womack,
Barbara Tucker,
Eve St. Jones,
Nation of Ulysses,
Hasil Adkins,
Scan 7,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Khruangbin,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.