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 Ukraine and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Porter Ricks,
cv313,
The Fall,
LL Cool J,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Gap Band,
Albert Ayler,
Moebius,
Soulsonic Force,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Velvet Underground,
Yellowson,
Franke,
Eddi Front,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vainqueur,
the Sonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Buckinghams,
Roxette,
Whodini,
Clear Light,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joey Negro,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
AZ,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Techniques,
Frankie Knuckles,
The New Christs,
Michelle Simonal,
Visage,
Organ,
Wally Richardson,
Fatback Band,
Cameo,
Swans,
Brothers Johnson,
Reagan Youth,
Public Enemy,
The Red Krayola,
Lou Christie,
Aswad,
Faraquet,
Massinfluence,
Main Source,
10cc,
The Golliwogs,
Masters at Work,
Sixth Finger,
Skarface,
Shuggie Otis,
Jacques Brel,
Yusef Lateef,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.