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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Magma to the techno 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Connie Case,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Womack,
Carl Craig,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joyce Sims,
The Electric Prunes,
The Searchers,
The Motions,
Q65,
Neil Young,
Scion,
Inner City,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Marmalade,
Gabor Szabo,
The Selecter,
Rakim,
Lightning Bolt,
Aloha Tigers,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
the Swans,
Scientists,
Jawbox,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cybotron,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Derrick May,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mars,
The Invisible,
Main Source,
Anthony Braxton,
Eve St. Jones,
Whodini,
The Offenders,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rod Modell,
Robert Hood,
K-Klass,
June Days,
the Germs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Howard Jones,
Amon Düül,
Royal Trux,
The Divine Comedy,
Ludus,
Archie Shepp,
The Toasters,
The Music Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
Donald Byrd,
The Sonics,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Erasure,
Peter and Kerry,
Boz Scaggs,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.