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 Senegal and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe 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 Danielle Patucci to the grime 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eric Copeland,
Drexciya,
Pierre Henry,
Dual Sessions,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alison Limerick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dark Day,
The Neon Judgement,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Section 25,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Blackbyrds,
Animal Collective,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cowsills,
Terrestrial Tones,
Depeche Mode,
Ronnie Foster,
Saccharine Trust,
Fela Kuti,
MC5,
Connie Case,
Siglo XX,
Barbara Tucker,
Echospace,
Model 500,
Bobby Sherman,
Reagan Youth,
The Evens,
The Dirtbombs,
Subhumans,
MDC,
Con Funk Shun,
Archie Shepp,
Moebius,
The Velvet Underground,
The Wake,
Warsaw,
The Fire Engines,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Five Americans,
Ultravox,
Tomorrow,
E-Dancer,
Quadrant,
Public Enemy,
Eve St. Jones,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bluetip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mandrill,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Wells,
The Selecter,
Judy Mowatt,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.