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 Somalia and from London.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb 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 Tom Boy to the jazz 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moby Grape,
Iggy Pop,
Oblivians,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Judy Mowatt,
Smog,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Golliwogs,
The Motions,
Cluster,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Busters,
Hashim,
These Immortal Souls,
Fear,
Scion,
Suicide,
The Evens,
David McCallum,
Outsiders,
The Gun Club,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Simply Red,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dirtbombs,
Moss Icon,
Chrome,
Grauzone,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sparks,
The Stooges,
Donald Byrd,
Section 25,
Marshall Jefferson,
Motorama,
Silicon Teens,
the Sonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Letta Mbulu,
KRS-One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Al Stewart,
Sarah Menescal,
The Associates,
L. Decosne,
The Slits,
Ronnie Foster,
The Kinks,
Drive Like Jehu,
FM Einheit,
MC5,
Kerri Chandler,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.